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Living in Phoenix too, I moved off Cox when they instituted their bandwidth caps to CenturyLink, but I can only get DSL here in Peoria, and will likely never ge
by bastard_op 3y ago
Living in Phoenix too, I moved off Cox when they instituted their bandwidth caps to CenturyLink, but I can only get DSL here in Peoria, and will likely never get their fiber with the lazy US telco mentality. Still, even with "only" 140mbps down and I think like 3mbps up, I can live with it vs. Cox sending me hate emails and a bill for bandwidth overages every month.
One of my best friends is an engineer at Cox in town, and still quip at him about their silly bandwidth caps. He says it's a topic at every all-hands meeting that even employees are tired of hearing from their friends and family that they hate their bandwidth caps. Cox was one of the last Cable MSO's to actually implement bandwidth caps, but eventually they realized every other scumbag Cable ISP in the country was doing so, that they were leaving too much money on the table. Everyone else is doing it, so why not them too.
It's cool providers have gig speeds now, but if you use all you bandwidth for a month in 3 days to start getting overage charges every month, it isn't cool for long. It took Google Fiber threatening Cox and CL in Phoenix to actually get them to start rolling out FTTH years ago, so at least Google was good for something.