Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Well, comparing with western Europe, sharing across household limits was not allowed due to telecomms regulation
1. It i impossible to check
It's probably difficult to enforce, but then you just make the fine so much much severe.
2. Not all providers impose such restrictions (some do indeed, modeling after Western countries), but I think it appeared only recently
It was not primarily a provider rule, it was government legislation concerning who is allowed to carry telecommunication traffic as a third party. With the liberalisation of the telecomms industry that has happened in the later years, many of these restrictions have gone away, and it's far more likely today that a few households in a remote(ish) village will get together and share a high-speed connection. Their reasons for doing it is typical installation costs and/or geography-dependent unavailability.
3. such networks grew to become local providers, then merged to become a city-wide provider
Yep, that I have understood and that makes sense. What I still can't quite see is how a few nerds wiring up their apartments developed into every or virtually every apartment building being fully wired for ethernet,
http://www.tushino.com/ - LAN of Tushino district http://www.izmaylovo.ru/ - LAN of Izmailovo district http://www.butovo.com/ - LAN of Butovo district http://www.metronet.ru/ - LAN of Metrogorodok district http://www.golnet.ru/ - LAN of a part of Golyanovo
They all now Internet providers.
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