Ãyvind, in my country (former soviet republic) all ISPs, but ISPs that provide dial-up, are monopolists. So they can do what they want, because 256 kbit/s is better than 14400 bit/s, so users are glad, and don't resent. It's typical behavior of the former citizens of USSR.
PS. The name of my country is Ukraine. You probably never heard about it. It's located between Poland and Russia.
Not only u have monopoles, our beast is called Slovak Telecomunist co. It has absolute power/authority protected by law. Doesn't matter our constitution declares democracy and equal rights for everybody. Doesn't matter the owner is Deutche telecom (from Germany). They really can do, what they like to, because they own also complete wired network across the country. No competition = no problem = gold mine ! And therefore we have probably the most expansive Internet in Europe (if I not count Albania).
noro
PS. U forgot to mention, Ukraine is only twice so big as Poland :-)
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