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It will all end in tiers. $200 a month for first world internet, $70 a month for the crap-tacular service that people can afford.
by reality_czech 12y ago
It will all end in tiers. $200 a month for first world internet, $70 a month for the crap-tacular service that people can afford.
- Veratyr 12y agoAs much as I dislike Comcast, I pay $80/month for 105/10 Mbps and that's with no promotional pricing in a local monopoly. I strongly dislike Comcast but their pricing isn't incredibly unfair. Plus according to this article, they're about to bump my speeds by 50% without making me pay anything.
- serge2k 12y agoI pay $80 for gigabit, I might drop down to 100Mbit for $60 though.
- hueving 12y ago$80 for that speed is awful compared to many places in the world.
- Veratyr 12y agoOh I know it can be better, I'm just disagreeing with the hyperbole in the comment I was replying to. I also come from Australia where it's much worse so I'm not used to complaining this much.
- higherpurpose 12y agoThey've already said it will be $400 (6x Google Fiber price). I don't know why so many articles don't mention this. The question is, will Netflix still be throttled at those speeds? Will torrents? Because even now people supposedly have 50Mbps, which is more than enough for Netflix which only requires 3Mbps for HD streaming, yet somewhow when they play Netflix it often works under <1Mbps. Use a VPN and it magically starts working perfectly again. Strange, huh? So yeah, before anyone gets too excited about this, let's wait and see how it actually works, and whether it will actually arrive soon, or it's just another "fiber to the press release" to keep people cheering for Comcast for the next 3 years until they actually start deploying it.
- matt_kantor 12y agoCan you provide a source?