Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your taxes already subsidize it. You just don’t see any benefits for your money in the current system.

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• eating3645@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ISPs in the US are notorious for getting public funds for services that they never provide, so I wouldn’t be too concerned about that.

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  • jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. They’re getting massive handouts from our money. Let’s cut out the middlemen and pay a utility directly.

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• jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What competition? Tax me and give me fucking municipal fiber instead of giving giant paychecks to wealthy assholes who invest nothing in improving the service but raise everyone’s rates regardless.

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• marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah yes competition. I get to choose between two providers, charter and at&t. Same price, about the same speeds.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not where I live. All private Internet, but very limited choices that all keep getting more and more expensive.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also tend to deliberately stay out of each other’s service areas so they can ramp up prices with de facto local monopolies.

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• rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Please tell us how “keeping it private” ensures competition and prevents monopolies. For extra credit, let us know WHO is responsible for preventing monopolies.

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  • red_pigeon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where did I say it prevents monopolies ?

    Where I’m from if it goes public I’m sure the govt is going to take advantage of it with piss poor speeds. When it’s private, at least there are companies competing with decent speeds even though it’s expensive. It’s a choice between the lesser of two evils.

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    • rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where I’m from private is slower, more expensive, capped, and throttled. Public is faster, cheaper, unlimited and unregulated. And private lobby’s/bribes politicians to put laws in place preventing public.

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• BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess to answer that, wonder if your water, electric, or waste companies are gouging you. If they are, like in Texas, then yeah maybe?

  Everywhere I lived, people and voting have strong control over utilities and they are fairly priced because it’s a service not a business

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• Montagge@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where I use to live was all private. CenturyLink was the only option as they had an agreement with Comcast that Comcast wouldn't come into my area.

  I paid $60/month for 500kbps down. Yes kilobits.

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