Yep, very similar. It was the same when I lived in LA in the early 2000s, but that was at the beginning of DSL rollout, so I'm going to cut Verizon et al a nano

Yep, very similar. It was the same when I lived in LA in the early 2000s, but that was at the beginning of DSL rollout, so I'm going to cut Verizon et al a nanometre of slack.