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P Ness
Premium Member
2017-Sep-11 6:08 pm
m o n o p o l y abuse...where is the FTC?lol so he openly admits he has the ability because he has a monopoly in area's.....
i remember back in the day they used to fix this sort of thing. |
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Windstream Fantasyland.Every year for 25 years Windstream has made grandiose statements about how things will dramatically improve in the next handful of years. Every year they move another teeny tiny step forward, nothing close to the big splashy announcement. I do not expect them to meet thier big announcement this time either.
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AckAck
Member
2017-Sep-11 11:09 pm
EntertainingSpeaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2017 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Windstream CFO Bob Gunderman promised...
Windstream must have been providing the Entertainment. They have one hell of a tap dance routine. |
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Com-pe-tition.Wait, what? There's competition to "flee too"? What's this world coming to? |
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Anon3ed83
Anon
2017-Sep-11 7:43 pm
Newark OhioSo what's the actual uptake in Newark these days? 5% of homes passed? 10%? Why would anyone under the age of 85 want anything to do with a 3mbps Shitstream DSL line for $80/mo when Verizon sells unlimited prepaid LTE voice/data lines for the same damn price? |
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ARRIS S33
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LOLwhat! glad i dont live in a windstream area at least hes pretty blunt about having a monopoly in areas, soon to find out which places get the rate hikes no other company is willing to admit they have a monopoly, saying satellite is competition and stuff. |
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Anon2e7cc
Anon
2017-Sep-12 10:04 pm
30 Mbps? DreamWindstream bandwidth performance in southwest Iowa is so far under the delivery rate sold, in most industries they would be investigated for consumer fraud. In Fremont County Iowa, we pay $105/month for "8 Mbps" which never is able to deliver more than 1.5 Mbps down and 0.25 Mbps up. Any upload like Dropbox sync will usually kick latencies to around 16,000 to 30,000 ms (yes, really) and realize packet loss to upper 90%.
As a former international internetworking engineer trained through Cisco's CCNA/CCNP and intimate with carrier wide area network engineering, I never encountered South American networks as dreadfully mismanaged as Windstream's rural U.S. network. It's evident they offer numerous excuses around their technical problems, almost always starting with the customer being blamed until that's proven otherwise. The reality appears to be a terribly oversubscribed network with very dated equipment and inept engineering.
Incidentally, we're suffering the latest regional outage. Windstream's Twitter account is so overwhelmed that they're not even able to reply to all those who reach out. State public utilities commission action and Federal/state fraud investigations regarding systemic delivery of service a fraction of what was sold should also be pursued. |
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A cynical approach to things.quote: Gunderman said the company intends to raise speeds in cable areas to better compete, and raise prices in non-cable areas to take advantage of a lack of overall competition.
"Intends" Just do it dimwit, right there I reached the conclusion that nothing will be done. "And raise prices in non-cable areas" $10~$20 more for doing nothing? Are these guys for real? I thought that Spectrum was the exception but it looks like it is the norm in the industry, at least Spectrum offers faster speeds (albeit a $199.99 BS upgrade fee) of 100Mbps and in some markets 300Mbps. |
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