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I'm in utah...maybe it's just different here, but we have Utopia which owns the conduit, and leases out to different ISP's who own the networking equipment. I'm
by gremlinsinc 10y ago
I'm in utah...maybe it's just different here, but we have Utopia which owns the conduit, and leases out to different ISP's who own the networking equipment. I'm with X-mission who's CEO is a big privacy advocate, and supporter of EFF. But there's google fiber in places, there's x-mission and about 5-6 other utopia-leasing ISP's locally you can choose - and that's just for fiber, you also have Comcast, Qwest(DSL), and CenturyLink, and a few others.
Even in rural Cedar City down south you have about 5 ISP choices. Though the highest speed looks to be TDS at 300MBps
- lovich 10y agoIn mass you are lucky if you get 2 options. My building finally got another company to connect after 12+ years of Comcast only. In suburbs around boston you get a mix of Comcast+RCN, Comcast only, Comcast+Verizon, Verizon only. Ive usually seen 120 MBps/$80 as the max but in my aforementioned building Comcast sent us a friendly email saying we were being upgraded to 200 MBps at the same rate, the day before our building announced the second ISP available at 100 MBps/$69. That smells to me a lot like they always had the capacity, but never turned it on until they finally had competition. Note: It looks like Comcast has started offering a 2000 MBps connection for 299 a month. Maybe it was just a coincidence that they were adding new capacity at the same time
- UncleMeat 10y agoBay area here. Its in my lease that I need to use Comcast for any wired internet connection.
- orthecreedence 10y agoI'm so incredibly surprised this hasn't been sued out of existence for anti-competitive behavior. Not that people in the Bay Area ever have more than one choice to begin with for internet service (AT&T and Comcast seem to split the area up amongst themselves).