Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dodged a bullit today. Pretty lucky

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m on former Centurylink fiber which was similarly sold off to private equity. Other than the name changes and wonkiness with accessing my account in their system, its been…fine actually? The connection is more stable than it ever was under Centurylink for one thing, and my bill hasn’t changed at all in the years since

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• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every ISP is pretty shit to be fair. Doubt whoever they sell to is worse than the other options.

  (fuck spectrum)

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)

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  • Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real. Last year we finally got some competition against Spectrum and their customer service is actually worse than Spectrum. I didn’t imagine that was possible

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All I do is bitch at Spectrum on the phone once a year and they barely increase my bill.

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• Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.

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• phailhaus@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t used RCN/Astound since COVID, but they were pretty decent before then. Far better than Comcast.

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