Gate/Lane Parts: A Clarification

[Bobthemanofsteel]

IC insures all Liberty and Bretonian gates, and those two houses are more than likely still paying off the debt incurred by their construction.
Kusari and Rheinland nationalized their gates, so IC's got nothing to do with them, aside from still having access to the USI system.

Liberty would have got most of it's network for 'free' when they were originally built.
Bretonia is somewhat of an enigma, there's no mention of them buying the lanes, but we can assume they did.

And IC has -everything- to do with the lanes in other houses, the USI system has very little to do with them. Each lane/gate is imbedded with a scanner that checks cargo and ship ID. Pretty much every (huge) company in Sirius is insured by IC, and IC uses this system to track it's insured cargo.

The USI itself is more the scanner tech each ship possesses, and while the Gatelanes do use is, that's as far as it goes.