| Wrong I lived in Japan for a year, and that place is populated beyond scope with people who are very tech savvy. While there, I had a 20/5 line that I paid for, that always hit the numbers, and paid only $35, and that's U.S. dollars. That was low end in Japan. Everyone you would talk to had blazing speeds and was on the net 24/7 it seemed like, yet I never heard of pricing models like here in the states. I could have gotten a 40/10 line, that would have only cost me $55 per month, no discount, a few different price packages to pick from, fiber connections, you name it, they had it before FIOS and others started here. One of the reasons I believe Japan got it right, was government investment in the infrastructure, and REGULATION.. Here in the states, we bought the idea of de-regulation, and how that would open up competition and the like, yet all it does is allow this crap. Large companies buying everyone, then saying your going to pay this or else. Most cities only have a choice of 1 real provider for broadband, so how is this choice, and fair, when that 1 sole provider charges whatever they want, and the service isn't all that great. I strongly believe everyone should write their congressman about this, the industry is getting out of hand, with an FCC watching over them like a wolf would watch over a chicken, nothing good comes out of it. Sometimes de-regulation does work, with the voip boom, it seems the telephone companies now lower almost everything and have large packages for nice prices, all a great benefit for the consumer, but sometimes it doesn't work, and in this case, I know it doesn't. |
