Well unbundling of the "last mile" certainly helps getting a competition going in DSL lines.
OTOH, it's still unclear what produces a competitive mobile market. Comparing Austria with Germany, Austria traditionally had better deals than Germany, despite lacking virtual operators for a long time. The differences are that stricking, that I've used my Austrian SIM card for over a year in roaming till I found a calling plan that makes at least so sense for me. OTOH, not everything is clear cut, e.g. Austrian operators still do not have a 100% real UMTS flat rate, while such data plans are available in Germany for some years now. Hard to understand what drives competition in mobile markets :( Andreas -- Ursprüngl. Mitteil. -- Betreff: unbundling of phone services Von: "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: 12.06.2007 21:27 sorry for the partly off-topic, slightly rambling post, but i feel this has partial relevance to openmoko one of the hot topics where i live (NZ), is LLU, unbundling of monopoly-controlled internet connections to the home/business, to allow any other companies to have access to the network at a fair price. this is seen by many as the holy grail of open internet access, spurring innovation and driving down prices. a number of countries where one company/entity has monopoly control of the lines have taken, or are about to take, this route. there has been lots of talk around the iphone/openmoko about what could potentially be done in the way of innovative use of mobile phone networks, but as the networks are locked down and controlled by their operators, there is very little considering how old/how pervasive the technologies are. so my question is: is there a similar movement anywhere for the equivalent of LLU for mobile phone networks? i.e. allowing other operators to use networks of vodafone/state-owned telco/sprint/whoever at reasonable price? most countries don't have monopolies providing mobile services (even nz has 2 providers), but they still act as though they are monoplies, providing (in my experience) vastly overpriced, very limited services at the moment, the innovative things that could potentially be done are restricted to using wi-fi connections, but wi-fi is not anywhere near as pervasive as gsm/cdma coverage _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
