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Being the second cable company in any given location is a terrible investment. Being the third is even worse. The only company I know who does it is RCN, and t
by rhino369 12y ago
Being the second cable company in any given location is a terrible investment. Being the third is even worse.
The only company I know who does it is RCN, and they only do it in big cities.
- xcrunner529 12y agoWe have W.O.W. here in some parts.
- shmerl 12y agoIn order for it not to be terrible, it should offer something better than competition (i.e. more bandwidth for lower prices, better customer service and so on).
- dceddia 12y agoThrough some miracle, I am able to get Comcast, Verizon FIOS, AND RCN. I chose RCN. For $40/month, I get 50/10 internet. JUST internet. I didn't want a TV bundle, and with RCN, I didn't have to buy it. Amazing how that works!
- yellowapple 12y agoThis isn't universally true. In my town, for example, the second was (if I understand correctly) Suddenlink (the first was AT&T), and Suddenlink is easily the dominant cable company in the area; AT&T's best offering is 3Mbps DSL, while I just got bumped up to 100Mbps with Suddenlink (and that's apparently not even the fastest residential anymore; I wonder if they'll eventually offer a gigabit plan here?). Meanwhile, the town's also considering municipal fiber now that the whole net neutrality stuff happened (and having watched another nearby town implement its own locally-grown fiber).
- rhino369 12y agoAT&T was a phone company and Suddenlink was a cable company. They both had separate networks used for non-ISP service (telephone and video TV). They both moved into ISP service when it got popular, but they didn't have to build a new network to do it.