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 ·Embarq Now Centu..
| North Carolina I cannot speak for the rest of the country but here in North Carolina I find that we have limited choices of service. The companies know that they don't have no competition so they offer the speed and price that they think is satisfying for them. How would a consumer know any different if they have never use 20M syn. This was the local cable and DSL mentality are basically is now.
For many years we had one company for broadband, they offered only one package for CABLE service. 1.5Mb down and 384K up, this for $59.00. I use this service for 4 years and experienced daily outages that were blamed on bad lines and anything else they could think of that they thought I didn't know about. After suffering 4 years EMBARQ made DSL available in my area. 10Mb down 896Kb up. I been down 2 times in 3 years.
The problem with the companies not wanting towns to build their own infrastructure is they cannot control the speed and price. I have no idea it if is feasible to build your own fiber network but I do know competition is a better thing.
The US is really behind in broadband speeds compared to some of the other countries. I feel like we are controlled like children with our speed and pricing for our internet from these companies. Its time to move on and expand the speed and availability of internet.
Something to think about, if you controlled the internet connection, speed and the upgrades, would you want towns to take that away from you? |
