Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Otkaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good God I pay 90 a month for 1 gig fiber. What county are you in?

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pay $500, lol

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    • themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      W. H. A. T.

      Sorry, it’s so hard to believe, you have to explain how.

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      • AlecSadler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I live very rural and my only other option was 500kbps on a good day internet which doesn’t work for my software engineering job. So I ended up having to make tons of calls and beg and plead and I finally found a fiber provider who would trench a line directly to my house for me.

        Problem is…I’m paying for it for 10 years now.

        But it was worth it.

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  • AirlineF0od@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pay 99.95 a month for 50 megs gotta love the local phone cmpny

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s Romania. But I live in the US now.

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  • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pay 40€ a month for 250 MBit in Germany :(

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    • hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just over that for 1Gbit in the Netherlands.

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• CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  50€ for 1000/1000 here. My employer covers it.

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  • burliman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pay $110 for 2000/2000 fiber. In the US.

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I pay $110 for 300mbs down 10 mbs up, in New York City. I have routine fantasies about what the board of my ISP deserves.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    46€ for the same here.

    30€ if I can do with 1000/100 instead, which most people could.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    30€/m for 2x2.5Gb

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  • Huschke@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    49€ here, but yeah about 1/10 of the price in some US states is insane.

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• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pay Comcast $130 for 1000/35

  Just Internet, no bundles.

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  • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you can get the same internet speed for like 10$ in Ukraine

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• Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to defend those shitbags, but population density plays a large part in infrastructure cost. source

  Granted, they’ve alco received enormous subsidies without intending to fulfill their obligations, but still, it’s a significant factor. This country is quite large. I can drive 4h in nearly any direction and still be in state lines. Most of that is farm land.

  This is one of the reasons why this should be nationalized because rural areas are still either unserved or underserved by broadband because the cost/benefit analysis doesn’t favor the provider enough.

  That said, prices are higher than they should be even taking density into account (strictly my opinion). Gigabit fiber should actually be about $15/mo for all regions, (my SWAG*) but the infrastructure just is not there yet. The biggest challenge being the “last mile”.

  *Sophisticated wild-ass guess

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  • automattable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t let them tell you it’s the lack of density that is the problem. I live in a major US city with high density, and there is only one provider that offers actual broadband at my address (~$100/mo for 500Mb/s service). The “competition” wants me to pay $50/mo for 20 Megabit DSL.

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    • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it truly is part of the problem and there is no excuse for you to be billed that much. Two things can be true!

      I have the option of 200 megabits for $19. It all depends on what infrastructure is already there and how much it costs for them to get the hookup to you whatever it is. I think the real problem is that we’re living under their rules which are based on how much money they can make rather than providing equal access for everyone.

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