I was wondering who operates each part of the cabling system for internet signals from an ISP to the home, like the ones from the neighborhood fiber to an individual home, and if the cables are shared between different ISPs or if each has their own and how they direct the cables to another ISP if a user changes their ISP.
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In some places (the regulations are per-state or per-city), phone lines used for DSL internet must be shared between the owner the line (the phone company) and other DSL providers.
Those DSL providers have to pay for the access, of course.
In the days of dial-up, the phone company would own the phone lines. An ISP would essentially just be a slightly specialized business customer with one phone number but a bunch of actual connections to the phone company.
I don’t know the situation for more modern fiber and cable modem.
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