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In the Bay area we are finally starting to see a bit of competition at the $70/month level. Comcast will either deliver you 30mbits/second or AT&T (if they've
by ghshephard 14y ago
In the Bay area we are finally starting to see a bit of competition at the $70/month level. Comcast will either deliver you 30mbits/second or AT&T (if they've hooked up your neighborhood yet) - will send you 24mbits/second.
I was paying $150/month for 2x64 ISDN in 1998/1999. So, my price went from .85 kilobits/1$ to 434 kilobits/1$. 500x increase in price performance in 13 years, which is a bit better than the expected 256x increase over 13 years.
Things have plateaued recently - but I expect to see 1 Gigabit to the home to be pretty standard in the bay area by 2020 for $70 - which is completely in line with 18 month price performance doubling. (33x improvement) - it's just a little bursty.