It would be an understatement to say that rural broadband policy in developed markets has largely been inadequate. The default program in many countries in Europe and elsewhere has been to hand in money to incumbent operators to subsidise NGA
The Impact of Market Structure on Broadband Profitability
In the last few years, Diffraction Analysis has been vocal about the virtues of structural separation. It’s not because we’re getting paid to push that view (we’re not, sadly for us) or because we think vertically integrated markets are unfair
Diffraction Analysis in The Economist
Benoit Felten is quoted in an article in the latest issue of The Economist entitled Battle of the Wires. He talks about whether BT could do more in terms of broadband delivery to the UK to avoid structural separation.
The trouble with ducts and poles
