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If the number of homes is significant, you can bet that Comcast and friends will hurry to make offers themselves, now that someone is becoming a viable alternat
by cm3 10y ago
If the number of homes is significant, you can bet that Comcast and friends will hurry to make offers themselves, now that someone is becoming a viable alternative. It's happened the same way in Germany too. Zero activity up until a local effort is started to build lines.
- iokevins 10y agoIn line with your comment: in September 2015, regional publication "Santa Cruz Tech Beat" published a special report, by Steve Blum of Tellus Venture Associates, titled, "Santa Cruz Muni Fiber Threat Forces Comcast Upgrade": http://www.santacruztechbeat.com/2015/09/23/santa-cruz-muni-fiber-threat-forces-comcast-upgrade/ http://www.santacruztechbeat.com/2015/09/23/santa-cruz-muni-... TL;DR: "Before the upgrade, the best that Comcast could reliably deliver in the Santa Cruz area was less than 25 Mbps download and somewhere between 1.5 Mbps and 3 Mbps upload speeds.... Comcast routinely advertized and sold Santa Cruz subscribers its faster 150 Mbps service. According to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, when pushed to the wall, Comcast gave refunds and discounts to customers, but apparently only to those who went to the trouble of complaining to the district attorney, the CPUC or other regulatory agencies."