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Comcast and CenturyLink: You've shown you do not want to invest in fiber to the home, so you don't have any right to stop the city from doing it. I don't hate
by linsomniac 9y ago
Comcast and CenturyLink: You've shown you do not want to invest in fiber to the home, so you don't have any right to stop the city from doing it.
I don't hate Comcast as much as others, but I'm really looking forward to Fort Collins starting the process of doing municipal fiber.
Comcast and CenturyLink have neglected upgrading infrastructure for decades, and so if they aren't going to do it I don't see why the city shouldn't. Comcast at least has a reasonable service, CenturyLink tops out at 40Mbps at my home.
CenturyLink is particularly culpable because they received $2B in taxes to roll out fiber to the home by the year 2000, and did little if anything for that money. I've never even known anyone who has QWest/CenturyLink FTTH.
They are just sitting on a bunch of copper twisted pair, hoping to get as much money as they can without any investment in new technology.
Even back in the last '90s they had that attitude. They refused to deploy DSL concentrators in neighborhoods, because that would open the pedestals to CLECs to put gear into. So instead they required all DSL runs to go to one of the two Fort Collins Central Offices. A huge amount of the city was un-served because they were more than 18K feet from a CO.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoI am a recovering Comcast customer of 10+ years, and while CentiryLink is nearly as incompetent on the customer service front, they pulled fiber down my block a year ago and my gigabit connection is a glorious thing (it's 2/3rds the monthly cost of Comcast, for 5X the speed, symmetrical).
- kaslai 9y agoI just had to take the opposite jump. I was very happy with my uncapped gigabit symmetrical connection from Centurylink, but my new address is only serviced by Comcast. I'm paying less, but once the promo expires it won't be by much, for a 1TB capped 200/10 connection. I want my Centurylink fiber back :(
- loeg 9y agoCenturyLink has finally rolled out fiber to my home (Seattle area). It's taken a long damn time and until they did, they weren't remotely competitive with Comcast. But now I get about 600 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up for $100/mo, which beats Comcast slightly.
- therealdrag0 9y agoWhat will you do with all that power? I've been on 200+mbps subscriptions for a couple years (in practice at least over 100), and I've never needed more.
- loeg 9y agoNot much. In Seattle, there's no middle ground between 160/10 mbit from Comcast at $80/mo and gigabit from Centurylink at $100/mo. The latter seems like better value, plus I'd like to give a big middle finger to Comcast for their 15 year monopoly in the region. It does make multi-GB downloads really nice and fast, a few seconds.