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so for the majority of us we won't see any 16mbps+ speed anytime soon, being there is no competition except slow-dsl which no one wants.

i guess if you want speed you'd have to move to a city where multiple companies are duken' it out.. as for the rest of us, i guess we'd have to settle for whatever comcast decides to give to us as they don't have an obligation to increase our speed if they know they're the only ISP in town.

unfair? maybe, we'll suck it up - as always.

Living in the country or a lesser sized town/city, you don't get everything us city slickers get

reply to Sebastian
You hardly need to dodge bullets to reap the rewards of broadband competition. Middlesex County, MA has 2000 square miles of it inside the 495 belt and outside of Boston. Everyone I know enjoys Blast service, and my only neighbors are trees.
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reply to Sebastian
Typical evening speeds when I last had both Comcast HSI (6000/384 tier) and Verizon DSL (3000/768):

Comcast: 3000 down (if I was lucky), 350 up
Verizon: 2880 down (all the time), 715 up

Cost? $58 for Comcast, $32 for Verizon (all fees included for both)

"...which no one wants"? Hardly. "slow DSL"? Slower... barely, and way faster on the upstream. Plus, latency with Verizon was half that of Comcast's.

One should not generalize. DSL may suck in New Haven, but it doesn't in my area.

Give Comcast a break, they just got hammered.

reply to pokesph
How about wiring the remainder of the country, you greedy twats?

reply to Sebastian
We dont need more speed though, they say "most of us" are happy with the speed we have.They have always been saying that so if thats the case why then offer higher speeds in Fios areas, because....ummmm we do want more speeds maybe. Just a thought.

reply to Cabal
I live in Essex County, MA; which is actually presumed to be more affluent, and we don't have Blast, or Fios in our town. Of course many of the towns around us do.

reply to Jonbo298
yeah ok i live in a town of 1500 people in ohio and i get 15/2. so who give you better service and better speeds. RR thats who. the only compatitor is embarq. nad they really suck.