You're poking about either politics or the consumer situations - something I don't bother myself with.
I was talking about the Internet connectivity/routing. I tested from local upc.nl address and ams-ix
Wish we had even *that* much choice! For us it's Verizon DSL or... Verizon DSL! The lousy cable company (Adelphi bought by Comcast) in our area doesn't even have upgrading to digital lines *planned*. To add insult to injury, Metrocast provides the cable in the very next town, and they ran new digital lines THROUGH OUR FRONT YARD over a year ago! As soon as there's another option (other than satellite which has such a high latency it's almost unusable for us) we're soooo getting rid of Verizon altogether.
Yeah, our options are either AT&T (which is what we use) or Bombcast (LONG story but you can see why my husband and I call it that here) Yes, that was our house in the photos (the house in the last two was the reason our house looked like it did and was less than 75 ft away). Liz