G+_telly coleman Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Competition is great. Just the idea of google fiber in Nashville has made all ISP's Step up. Google fiber not available in my area yet however Comcast just called and said Gig is available with them for $80 a month. No bandwidth caps. Love a free market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Glad you like it... But it's going away with the new FCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_telly coleman Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Yeah I agree. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_telly coleman Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Ummm. The hostility. Hey I agree with you but I will pay just like I'm paying now $80 a month no surcharges and including tax. I asked about bandwidth limits on streaming services there is none because there is none from their competitor google fiber. "Keep loving a free market that doesn't love me"?? Seems like they are showing me a lot of love. Does Comcast have a streaming service???if they do they don't promote it in my area. I agree with net neutrality. But a free and open market should includes net neutrality. Hence the term Free. An open market wouldn't be truely open without net neutrality. Charging for bandwidth used by some companies and not charging others is NOT a free an open market. So not sure where the hostility is coming from. The End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_telly coleman Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Unrelated. How about this for net neutrality. I have AT&T cellphone and Direct TV. I had a family 40 Gig data plan. With both services AT&T doesn't charge for streaming Directtv. This is temporary good for the consumer but stifle innovation. I agree. However When I switched to the new AT&T unlimited plan. Which is unlimited up to 25 Gb then you are throttled. Now Direct TV streaming counts toward this bandwidth cap. ?. It's like AT&T is bypolar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Maybe I'm wrong, but don't most Americans live in urban areas? And don't most urban areas have at least 2 options - sometimes 3 or 4? (Some places in the Kansas City area have 2 cable providers, DSL, and Google Fiber as options - besides wireless options.) I get that Cable or Fiber is really the only good option, but others exist. I'd probably also question the claim that the FCC is about to destroy net neutrality. If anything, they might be allowing providers to damage it, but that doesn't mean the FCC is responsible. It's probably more of a government neutrality viewpoint. Sorry to sound controversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 telly coleman it seems like Google Fiber drove speeds up and prices down in the KC area too. Shortly after their service started, Time Warner started offering cheaper Internet-only options and we took the opportunity to increase bandwidth and cut TV. It seemed just a few months later they raised our speed from 50 Mbps to 200 Mbps. It's not Google Fiber speeds, but it's more than fast enough for most people and doesn't seem to hold me back much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_telly coleman Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Ben Reese Absolutly we all believed that Tom Wheeler was gonna jack up net neutrality. The proof is in the pudding. This administration talks a big game but delivers a smaller one. ( lately) So we will have to see. My mom lives in rural Alabama. One traffic light town 1 hour away from the closest Walmart type of rural. And until I just upgraded to Gig service she had faster internet than me. Her sister lives in a single home that's 1 mile down a dirt road and she has cable internet choice with 2 providers. I live in a suburb of Nashville and my suburb had 1 cable 1 DSL and 1 fiber provider BEFORE google Fiber ever came!! What google fiber did was disrupt the market and make internet cheaper with competition. 300 Mb speeds use to cost $200 a month. Now you can get it for $60. What scares me are all these telcom acquisitions. Att and directtv. Comcast and NBC will the administration think that this is just Free Market acquisitions and allow it. Or will they realize this will stifle competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jon Paul Bubendorfer Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Des Moines, Iowa. 2 options, direct TV, Mediacom. I have Mediacom for $75 month with 250 gig cap and that is NO cable TV, just internet. It sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Yanke Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 "Problem is we don't have a free and open market in most of the country;" - SteveV That's because of the FCC tinkering in the market in the first place, also trying to make things better. Of course, it didn't make things better, it put us where we are today. Why do we think the benovelent government will solve the problem created by the benovelent government when it was trying to solve a problem... Obviously, it hasn't helped. Get the government out of the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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