Just wait until you hear about the UK.
BT/Openreach has control of about 80% of the backhaul/trunk connectivity.
BT/Openreach has control of about 80% of the backhaul/trunk connectivity.
Hence you have a very competitive market landscape in the UK. There are at least 5 major national retail players using various wholesale products (BT, VM, TalkTalk, Sky, Vodafone), plus dozens of altnets offering FTTH on totally seperate fibre infrastructure have started (Hyperoptic, Cityfibre, GNetworks, Community Fibre).
In my flat in London I have access to 4 seperate FTTH networks (with completely different infrastructure) - Openreach FTTH, VM DOCSIS, Hyperoptic FTTB and Community Fibre FTTH. The market works here, prices are low and there are very few data caps.
Yip, things in London are quite different than the rest of the UK.
While Openreach has to allow access to other providers to its infrastructure, most infrastructure is owned and controlled by BT.
If you want FTTP, the underlying service is still BT Openreach. Openreach is very profitable.
At my previous employer it cost us £30K to have BT put in 3000m of fibre that took them 1 afternoon, then it cost £1K a month for a 30Mbs service.
BT owns provides the vast majority of broadband service in the UK and it is somewhat disingenuous to claim BT is on an equal footing as Hyperoptic, VM, or Community Fibre.
TT and Sky use BT OR infra, and EE, Plusnet, and BT Retail are all owned by the BT Group.
The telecom market in the UK is very consolidated and controlled by BT.
If you have a new-build flat in a major UK city you probably have a similar decent choice but the rest of the housing stock (the majority by far) is stuck with BT/Virgin.
VM can be ok or can be congested depending on the area. BT FTTH doesn't suffer from congestion issues (nor does the FTTC).
Check https://bidb.uk/ for more information. It collates all the altnets and planned roadworks into one dashboard.
That is just not true. BT consumer FTTC is contended up to 40 to 1--that is you are sharing your backhaul with upto 40 of your neighbours. I am assuming that their FTTH services are the same.
Not always. There are many altnets now (cityfibre etc).
> TT and Sky use BT OR infra, and EE, Plusnet, and BT Retail are all owned by the BT Group.
TalkTalk also use cityfibre.
> The telecom market in the UK is very consolidated and controlled by BT.
If you mean physical infrastrure, yes it is (though changing rapidly). Consumer level pricing is competitive though and the services are reliable in the large. It is a different planet compared to the US and especially Canada.