Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:18:58 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20491b-e7d.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> References: <87bnwfgjuh.fsf@nudel.nodomain.nowhere> <5341d6a5$0$61246$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net uzDsoMRr/GW7B0/WrB6/OABW43Xh/ruPn8m47GHy3ydjxh7BC7 X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:/J8TAKJeGBE9NLO9LtM5lkBRT4g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <5341d6a5$0$61246$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2298 On 06/04/14 23:35, Rich wrote: > Then the FCC was duped into changing the rules for fiber/cable such > that the owners of the fiber/cable didn't have to lease it to > competitiors at non-discriminatory prices. And what do we have now? > Many folks have only one provider (monopoly) or at most two. Two which > do not compete on price at all, and only barely compete on "features". > Rather the opposite to Britain where BT has most of the copper and had most of the local loop and backhaul. No-one bar a couple of cable TV companies can compete with the copper, but the government is encouraging (by force) LLU - or Local Loop Unbundling which allows other companies access to the telephone exchanges. BT have also had a kick from the government about FTTC (fibre to the [street] cabinet). In fact it's going in here and I live in a 1000-odd household village where the nearest big town is about 10 miles away - so I feel pretty lucky. We're rural, but south England is dense, so even "rural" is not totally in the middle of nowhere.