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Awesome, when can I expect to see an alternative to Comcast for high-speed (>=1gbps) internet in the Bay Area? The fact that all of Silicon Valley cannot solve
by seanp2k2 4y ago
Awesome, when can I expect to see an alternative to Comcast for high-speed (>=1gbps) internet in the Bay Area? The fact that all of Silicon Valley cannot solve this problem after decades is telling of the power of their monopoly.
- ec109685 4y agoAT&T Fiber is good.
- kelnos 4y agoI live in San Francisco, and my only option for high-speed is Comcast. AT&T's fiber trunk runs a block away from me, but they are unwilling to run fiber to my home, and have suggested it would be several tens of thousands of dollars if I were to get it done myself.
- anyfoo 4y agoI guess Sonic did not extend their network to your part of SF yet?
- MarkSweep 4y agoExcept that they make you use AT&T’s crappy router and charge you a monthly fee for it. I like Wave Broadband better where available.
- ec109685 4y agoThey don't charge a fee for me. And we disabled the wifi part of it and just have Eero do everything.
- anyfoo 4y agoSonic is fantastic.
- ViViDboarder 4y agoWish they serviced my neighborhood.
- CaptainNegative 4y agoSonic is capped at 10Mb/s in many areas where last mile is effectively a DSL bottleneck.
- anyfoo 4y agoAh, I was specifically talking about Sonic Fiber, which is 1Gbps (but apparently exists in a 10Gbps variant for businesses as well). Too bad it does not service all of SF so far.
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- Wowfunhappy 4y agoISPs are natural monopolies. That's not to say the government shouldn't do anything to improve the situation, but I think it's quite different from what the FTC did today.
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoISPS are almost a natural monopoly, until you consider that many municipalities have exclusive deals with one or two of them. Even if someone had the startup costs, they would literally not be allowed to compete because of collusion between government and entrenched business.
- bombcar 4y agoLiterally entrenched - someone has to run the wires and dig the holes.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoThen they should be nationalized. The market cannot be trusted with quintessential market failures. Public infrastructure should be just that: public.
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