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The scariest part is that Qwest is my only hope for any competition and that's not a big hope as I live in an older inner city neighborhood (they are only interested in serving new areas). That allows Cox to charge and do whatever they want -which they do and I'm stuck with no choice.
Qwest was also the only one that didn't turn records over to the feds. I wanted to stay with them (Cox is that bad here) but they made it impossible. Qwest would rather compete with cable in new developments than open new markets in underserved areas. That's a stupid business decision.
The fact is MOST people don't have any choice. I'm tired of hearing politicals imply there will be on some imaginary day. This "rural" stuff is garbage. I'm in the 5th largest city of the U.S. and the way the books are cooked are if even one person was served in a zip code, they could report to Congress the whole area was served. I don't have to look far to see large neighborhoods that share my zip code with dial up options only. That's creating another growing economic divide.
There's a bigger issue here than just Qwest and in comparison, Qwest isn't the worst of the evils. What happened to privately developing wifi the industry was trusted to develop? That should be a good clue that none of them have any interest in taking the risk of running a real business that is actually competitive and provides value for service.
The end result is stifling internet access and lack of competition has huge economic impacts for everyone. And it keeps getting worse. | |
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