Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Got an idea... Sorry, but this puts lobbyists out of a job...
Have ISP's put their ideas in writing and send them to washionton dc.. I don't want to see millions of ISP's dollars wasted on lobbyists just so they can get taxpayer money for something they should be doing in their own self interest (expading their footprint, upgrading service). Then publish the ideas so everyone can see what these a-holes want to pull over on the American People. This should be an ISP consumer directed funding, not an ISP christmas bag of freebies manipulated by DC lobbyists. Every single cent should be so that consumers benefit... not that the likes of Comcast or BumbleQwest can do the minimum and expect great handouts.. they have to "work" in consumer's best interest for this money. Milking antiquated technologies and imposing arbitrary limits on access for the same or higher prices reeks of the same snobbery that we've seen with the 3 CEOs going to washington in corporate jets to ask for bailout money.
And without furher adeu, let's see Verizon compete head to head in Comcasts backyard with FIOS... I'm sure the 250gb data limits will stand a great chance of remaining Comcasts policy in Philidelphia. / Sarcasm
My wish list by the end of the year...
$50 prepaid unlimited cell phone service coast to coast with every carrier (including all features formerly charged extra for included, ie text, web, data). No additional taxes imposed. This gives Sprint some competition.
A timetable for remaining cable carriers deploy docis 3.0 and implement 25mbit entry level (50 - 100mbit premium) service across 100% of that footprint. (1-9 years max). Don't skimp on the upstream either!
Data limits are gone... sorry, they have to go. Some peak time throttling may be necessary, but again.. this is a matter of upgrades to make aggregate bandwidth as good or better then FTTP provisioning.
02/17/2010, ALL docsis modems are replaced by docsis 3.0 modems. That date is arbirary.. could as well be 01/01/10, but cable companies are lazy, and there will be holdouts who own their own modems.
Last but not least... in my backyard.. Verizon offers a 15/2 internet & voip package for $59.90 as a bundle, and $89.95 with tv (then our local consumers can compare the services apples to apples and see which is better). Sometimes a nudge is all that is needed to make Cablevision start splitting nodes when they should. Competition could further reduce this price to $49.95 for internet & voice. |
