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If there was any competition in your area. Soon it will be Comcast or Comcast. Unless you live in a Google place.

• goatforce5 12y ago
  If it becomes clear that areas served by a single ISP get worse performance than those in areas with choices, than that too is useful to know and promote, right? Or maybe Google just wants to publish charts showing Google Fibre areas are consistently at the top of their lists so that other municipalities will want to make it easy for them to enter their local market (and/or ask their local monopolies why they can't be more like a Google-town).
• toast0 12y ago
  The (pending) merger of Comcast and Time Warner does not change any areas from a choice of Comcast or Time Warner to no choice, because there are no areas where the two cable providers cover the same addresses.
  • JshWright 12y ago
    And somehow no one seems to think that's a problem in the first place...
    • toast0 12y ago
      Lack of competition and transparency in the last mile is the essential problem, but the Comcast/Time Warner merger doesn't really change the status quo there (unless someone makes a significant change a condition of the merger). The blueprint of a solution is the pre-2005 regulation of DSL by ILECs: make cable providers (or at least comcast), ILECs, and anyone else with a natural monopoly offer line-sharing on reasonable terms, and watch ISPs spring up (or re-emerge) with competitive offers and better routing than the incumbents. Bonus points if wholesale pricing is required to be at least as low as retail pricing, unlike in the DSL times.
• jsz0 12y ago
  Despite the lack of competition that already exists I've yet to find an area where Comcast isn't rated as 'HD Verified' by Google.