Every interaction with any ISP in this country significantly increases my desire to start my own ISP and do it fucking right
Story from today:
ISP providing landline POTS phone at my grandparents place, that also provides VoIP service, can't provide VoIP at their place because – and I fucking quote – "internet infrastructure is rented and because of that internet phone is not supported"
One part is right, fiber cable isn't theirs, it's an open access infra
However, I think they don't know what the word "internet" means and how what they just said makes no fucking sense no matter how you look at it
;_;
@rail_ For what it's worth, basically every single thoroughly reputable ISP I know of, in any country, started out of spite with the existing industry, after someone concluding pretty much the same thing... so yeah, that sounds like a good plan (assuming you're prepared to deal with the complexity)
@rail_ Also thinking of A&A, XS4ALL, etc.
@rail_ (And Free, by some definition, though that was a bit of a weird special case)
@joepie91 yeah, companies like init7 and such