[embefuri]

Yes not FOC.

That means you have the legal rights to access but you still have to pay. Seems that policy protect also that the price will not exceed a stated limit, for the legally specified speed levels.

The law did not say it was meant to be protecting free-speech, but that was how I perceived it to be.

I agree that some laws were made to compel infrastructure development. E.g. in some 1st world nations they had since early 2000s, legislated to abolish analog broadcasting and phase out any broadcasters' analog license, to compel national broadcast infrastructures to be converted to digital by a legislated year. For USA it was 2009 for TV & Cables & Satellites. Forgot which year was Australia already.

The next classic thing I foresee to be abolished is fix-line telephone system, which had been largely replaced by cellphone or GSM & Internet. There are still many huge telephone exchanges in our red dot to facilitate fix-line telephone. There are millions of KM of copper wires undergound for that too. Huge wastage of resources. We already have Open-Net fiber. We have CATV (SCV). We have GSM & IP-telephones, we have email, we can fax via IP / Internet. We should kick out fix-lines, it is old technology since Mr. Bell's invention in 1864 one and half century ago.

Singapore will be an ideal place in this world to be the 1st to rid fix-line. Giving famiLEE LEEgime another idea to be world 1st . Get rid of these telephone exchanges, only keep fibre & broadband & mobile systems. Recycle these millions of kilo-meters of copper wires - there must be a million ton of them!