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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's very easy to separate the infrastructure provider from the service provider.
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Is the infrastructure provider allowed to charge the service providers for access and maintenance? The assumption in the US has always been that if you don't allow the infrastructure provider to charge for access, that the service providers will eventually lay their own infrastructure.
The result has always been a price war against the infrastructure provider, with only the infrastructure provider's customers paying for maintenance.