1 edit | yea only IF yes it is only if it is unlimited so I don't have to worry about caps concast. I don't like caps.plus at a good price not pay more for and get less. that's how companys work now days |
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Kamus
join:2011-01-27
El Paso, TX | Awesomely obsolete. Comparing an information technology with college eh?
Somebody buy this woman a clue please. |
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| Hey Rebecca.... The longer you guys keep your head in the sand, the harder the fall. Ignorance is bliss!! 'nuff said. |
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| US Broadband US broadband is a mess, no doubt. But I would say many areas are improving. |
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Re: Hey Rebecca.... And how is that? Comcast is the fastest provider in all their territories with the exception of FiOS. The company has ample cash to roll out faster technology if need be at any time. Comcast isn't going to fall anytime soon. |
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 gar187erI do this for a living
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE
kudos:4 | twisted pair blame those still clinging to DSL.
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| I assume by "those" you mean the ISPs themselves.
Many of us have no choice but to go with DSL if we'd like any sniff of broadband. |
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 ArrayListnetbus developerPremium
join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL | reply to gar187er
I blame the people still clinging to any form of copper. glass is where it's at. |
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Re: Hey Rebecca.... Just go back and read the article. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | The Daily Beating of Karl's dead horse.
The people who choose to live in satellite-only or cable-free locations are a small minority and do not represent the state of broadband in America. Serving such-low density settings will never be cheap - nor is it our collective responsibility to subsidize those who elect to live in such places.
LTE will bring competition to many of these otherwise unprofitable hamlets. While it won't allow data hogs to download or stream with impunity, it will deliver high speeds at an price point more acceptable to current non-subscribers, and will force better pricing for satellite bits.
Comcast is not a pleasant company to do business with - I'm glad we were traded out of their service area. But they continue to improve the value of their product year after year, as do the other major cable firms. |
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Re: Hey Rebecca.... I can read it a hundred times, that doesn't change fact. The largest ISP in the US is going nowhere, like it or not. |
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Re: twisted pair True enough, but it is the telco's copper that is the biggest problem. The cable company's copper is still capable of holding its own in many territories where fiber is deployed. |
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Kamus
join:2011-01-27
El Paso, TX | reply to silbaco
Re: Hey Rebecca.... said by silbaco:And how is that? Comcast is the fastest provider in all their territories with the exception of FiOS. The company has ample cash to roll out faster technology if need be at any time. Comcast isn't going to fall anytime soon.
Way to make a sad story even sadder. The fact that a copper provider is the "fastest provider in all their territories*" just adds insult to injury.
It would appear that cable providers learned nothing from the demise of DSL or why it happened.
DSL providers don't mind because they simply turned to their real cash cow, the wireless business where they charge an arm and a leg for bandwidth.
At the rate Cable is progressing even wireless will surpass them soon enough.
It didn't need to be that way either, they could have upgraded to FTTH instead of sitting on their laurels all these years.
Copper has been obsolete for a while now, and their failure to accept that and move on will bite them in the ass eventually. |
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Re: The Daily Beating said by elray:those who elect to live in such places...
The people that live and work in those places grow/produce your food. Just an FYI. Of course we could elect not to live here and let the city folk pay more to get their food. |
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Re: Hey Rebecca.... It's this statement that made me say what I did.
(Arbogast said) the absolute price of broadband was essentially flat while speeds increase 900%. She pointed out that over the same time the cost of college has increased 72%. "That's a real problem," she said. "Broadband isn't." Arbogast said that the U.S. was also a leader in what it did with broadband, including its impact on economic, political and social life.
Arbogast derided the oft-quoted stat that the U.S. is 22nd in broadband. "It is not true. It doesn't even rise to the level of 'truthiness' in the Colbertian sense." She pointed out that the stat appears to come from a three-and-a-half-year-old study. "That kind of disinformation is not a good basis for policy analysis."
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Not just Comcast but ALL cable companies better open their eyes. Caps were put in place to control web traffic and bandwidth hogging. Turned out to be hog wash as it was just another way to fleece money from the subscribers. Subscribers are leaving for other options. If you don't think this woman's hot air response is a backward assessment of the US market is then I don't know what is. |
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Kamus
join:2011-01-27
El Paso, TX | reply to silbaco
Re: twisted pair said by silbaco:True enough, but it is the telco's copper that is the biggest problem. The cable company's copper is still capable of holding its own in many territories where fiber is deployed.
It's not really "holding it's own" at all. It's obsolete, it just seems like it's "holding it's own" because sadly, the majority of people are still on shitty copper connections. So naturally internet services are designed with that majority of people in mind.
As for the fact fiber speeds are similar on the same areas (i'm sure you mean Verizon). It just goes to show that this is nothing but an agreement not to really compete between them, by offering similar speeds at the price points people are willing to pay for, even though Verizon could easily offer at least an order of magnitude higher speeds than cable can with out even coming close to saturating their network. (note that i'm talking about the plans people actually sign up for) |
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join:2012-11-27
Albuquerque, NM
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| One up We are making a killing directly competing against Comcast and CenturyLink in New Mexico. We don't block ports we don't restrict usage and being a local company customer support is off the hook.
Better yet we have the ability few have is Internet and more fast fast fast! |
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Kamus
join:2011-01-27
El Paso, TX | reply to elray
Re: The Daily Beating said by elray:they continue to improve the value of their product year after year, as do the other major cable firms.
Oh yeah, no one is arguing the fact that you can polish that pinto as many times as you want.
But if you want to fly with the eagles, you have to be one. |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY Reviews:
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said by elray:of Karl's dead horse.
Comcast is not a pleasant company to do business with - I'm glad we were traded out of their service area. But they continue to improve the value of their product year after year, as do the other major cable firms.
I hope you are being sarcastic? Because cable companies shove more adverts, commercials and junk on their subscribers and raise the price every year it seems. The latest trick is encrypting everything in order to jack up equipment rentals on "basic** TV"
33 channels none really HD just digitized analog and dropped on the wire |
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Kamus
join:2011-01-27
El Paso, TX | reply to RWSI
Re: One up said by RWSI:We are making a killing directly competing against Comcast and CenturyLink in New Mexico. We don't block ports we don't restrict usage and being a local company customer support is off the hook.
Better yet we have the ability few have is Internet and more fast fast fast!
I think we need a little more context to understand what you just typed. But somehow i don't think that will help your last paragraph. |
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