Comment on Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network "Xfinity 10G" despite cable's slower speeds.

• FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every single provider just sets completely arbitrary price-gouged rates. We need a public internet service to undercut these goons.

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  • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually there’s even a simpler solution (although your idea doesn’t conflict with it and both could be implemented).

    What is needed to bring competition back is a law requiring that the last mile (the wire that is between your home and nearest PoP (Point of Presence) can be leased to competition (at reasonable price of course).

    This is the primary reason why is it so hard to enter existing market. This is also the reason why we had so much competition in early 2000 with DSL (a phone line was used to which such law applies)

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  • antizero99@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A growing number of towns and cities have done exactly this. It’s partiallu responsible for pushing att and others to expand their true fiber networks. I’m in NC and we currently have by my count 5 companies offering ftth with 3 of them actively burying fiber and conduit all over town.

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• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And $500 installation and $500 ‘activation’ (just call it $1000 installation FFS).

  And a ‘modem fee’.

  They’ll probably add a few more fees on top for the hell of it if you query that…

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Processing fee, I’m sure. It costs you more money for them to take your money.

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    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Paperless billing fee. Online portal fee. Mobile app portal fee.

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      • theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fee’ing fee. You thought all these fees were free?

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• shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, here in London, 25GBP, ~30USD per month for symmetric 1Gbps, including router - communityfibre.co.uk

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you say so… that’s a pretty big tube.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The internet is not a big truck; it’s a series of tubes!

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  • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s fiber. Literally a strand of glass.

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    • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait… are you saying it’s not a series of tubes?

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really; in my market, $300 to Cox gets you a cable line with like a third of a gig down (theoretical) and like 20 megs up, business class. Compared to that absolute shit, it’s amazing. If you don’t get biz, you get a 1TB (or 750GB?) cap that you can lift for extra money but they can still decide that someone, anyone, in your area or neighborhood is using too much bandwidth, even if they pay the extra for unlimited, and throttle everyone.

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    help.orcon.net.nz/hc/…/18766789266585

    Several ISPs in NZ will sell you 10G fibre (advertised as 8G) for that, if you’re in urban areas with 100G handover links - otherwise, they’ll only sell 4G plans due to the risk of congestion.

    I believe 1000/500 is now the most common plan as the cost is barely more than the 300/100 plans

    Write to the FCC asking them to unbundle the retail divisions of your ISPs from the wholesale and physical plant divisions. And regulate the fuck out of the pricing and services offered by the monopolistic wholesalers.

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