Wherever you look in the world of operators, where there is good competition there is a healthy market and the result of an unhealthy market invariably leads to higher prices, due to market dominance. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Mexican broadband, where Telmex holds something close to a 60% market share of fixed line broadband and some of the most expensive broadband across Latin America. Which is why the regulator there, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has told Carlos Slim, the billionaire owner of Telmex that he must separate out the wholesale and the retail sides of the business, to promote local loop unbundling. Local loop unbundling is a bit like socialism – depending on where you are…