Where I am, I can choose between nine different ADSL providers, one cable provider, and about six different mobile broadband providers. All of them want me to switch to them, and they differ slightly in pricing, bundling, triple-play, customer service, speed, etc.
That's not what I'm asking. I have multiple providers of DSL internet, cable, and mobile providers, all with varying services, pricing, etc. Each one applies caps.
Where you are, are their lies that affect providers in that area? Or is it all pure competition?
Did those 9 ADSL providers all lay their own line, or is their laws in effect that make those providers lease their lines out to other providers?
The copper network is owned by TeliaSonera, the former state telephone monopoly, but they were forced to open that up to competitors so anyone could install DSLAMs in the phone stations, etc. There's competing national fiber networks as well, so no ISP has a stranglehold on the DSL market.
There's no competition and choice for cable though, you have the cable company you have, and that's it.
For GSM networks, there's three separate, and two or three 3G networks, so there's competition there as well.
In a few months my house is gonna be hooked up to the city fiber network, at which point I can choose from another bunch of ISPs.
How do you define competition between ISPs?