On: China Mandates Fibre For All New Homes

[loceng]

Pretty sure you could make this a legal requirement even in a democracy.

[anigbrowl → loceng]

Not without people screaming about the danger of government meddling in industrial policy and wrangling over it for the better part of a decade.

[gizmo686 → anigbrowl]

That's capitalist democracy. You could have a democracy where the government does control (or has significant influence over) industry.

[loceng → gizmo686]

And not allow the government to be the scapegoat for corporate-driven changes and rules.

[kalleboo → anigbrowl]

In the US maybe, but I could easily see something like this happening in Scandinavia. Sweden already has a lot of provider-neutral municipal fiber.

[Volpe → loceng]

Pretty sure Australia has done just that. State owned central ISP (NBN: National Broadband Network).