The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices::We’ve long noted how the FCC (regardless of party) largely ignores how muted competition and monopolization drives up prices for consumers. The agency often talks a good (if ambiguous) game about “bridging the digital divide,” but they don’t collect and share pricing data proving market failure, nor are they capable of admitting monopolies exist and…
Would it just not be better to manage all unavoidable charges to be included in the sticker price?
For everything, not just broadband.
What?!? But then how are companies going to manipulate their pricing to attract new customers away from their competitors without actually cutting any revenue? They neeeed this to keep their numbers up so they look more attractive to investors and get more money. Are you not thinking of the shareholders? Why won’t anyone think of the shareholders!
/s … if that was not obvious
Sorry, no, not obvious, this is likely exactly what they’re thinking, no sarcasm needed.
God I would love to see the government sacrifice Comcast to please us peons.
Just put their balls in a vice grip already. Fuck.
What we truly need is local loop unbundling (remember with landlines, you could switch your phone provider or use different ISPs for DSL, this was possible due to that) to make smaller ISPs enter the market and be able to lease existing last mile and bring back strong antitrust laws to prevent mergers.
Kinda curious. Americans of lemmy: How much do you pay for internet?
I’m a up bit north Eh. Paying cad$135 (usd~$99.50) monthly before tax for Gigabit with no data cap.
I’m super lucky. Apartment has integrated dirt cheap symmetrical 1gb for ~$30/mo
Damn, that’s a good deal.
Rent a bitch to compensate? Or is that decent too.
~$70 for a 500/30 plan on Spectrum over on the east coast for me.
Also no data cap, thankfully…
80 for 300/10 but the 300 usually maxes out around 210-250 depending on time of day. Also spectrum, also eastern timezone.
Just went up, but not too bad: $84/mon gigabit symmetrical, and I don’t know of any data cap.
Meanwhile my ex lives in an island of darkness where her HOA has an exclusive contract with Comcast. I believe “the new xFinity 10g network!!!” Is limited to 200/20, plus has horrendous latency, and I think she pays more than me for the abuse
$137/mo USD total.
Microwave service: $100 for 100/100mbps, 1TB of data. $7.00 for fucking DHCP to be enabled on their router. $30 for an additional 1TB of data.
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oof getting robbed, Rogers has gigabit for around 80CAD if you negotiate with them. Assuming you’re in a city with them
Only provider available at my address (Telus, ugh).
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I’m sure the dark brotherhood will keep them safe
$80usd for like 200 mbit down, 10 up. Cable monopoly in my area. FiOS isn’t super far away but it isn’t getting closer…
~75$ for 1gb - Fiber. Otherwise looking at 100$+ for the same with a cap.
~130$ for 100 to 200mb - Starlink. From a relative who lives rural south of me and only has HughesNet as an alternative because the only cable provider doesn’t want to service an additional mile for a few houses.
$120 USD for 700/20
My friend in the country pays $135 US/month for 400mbps down, 20mbps up (realistic speeds are closer to 50x5), and that’s after he negotiated. Originally, they wanted to charge him $150 US. I told him to go elsewhere. He said he has Spectrum or ATT ($65 US/month for 25x5). Pity.
I pay $39.99 USD for 300 megabit symmetrical fiber.