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BoricPenguin t1_isop7q0 wrote

I really hope the US fixes it's internet problem, like big ISPs are shit companies you have to deal with in many cases like in my area there's ONLY Comcast and somehow Comcast has exclusively for my fucking town meaning others ones cannot legally compete with them in my town....

And is the service good? Actually it's pretty good, my town is in the middle of nowhere basically and I have pretty good speeds so I am pretty happy but only in the last few years! It used to be pure shit and would just stop working for some reason and just a ton of other bad stuff.

This is the problem I had to deal with a bad internet for years until they fixed their shit! And there's no other company! You're just fucked!

The US needs restrictions and more forced standards for these ISPs to follow so even if there's only one it has to meet a specific restriction. Those restrictions and standards should be set pretty high because frankly it's not a hard service to deliver.

Internet is a must in today's world but the US just let's these companies do what ever like it's some niche market.

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Agreeable-Meat1 t1_ispg2qy wrote

Fun fact, 17 states have laws on the books preventing municipal governments from offering broadband services to residents. There are actually a few small cities that offer full on home internet through the city government. It's definitely an interesting way to attract residents.

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tankerkiller125real t1_isqrnv8 wrote

Ohio tried to pass a law like that, the problem is that they tried to do it too late. Cities who already had it, and cities already in the planning/deployment phase shut it down hard.

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Ok-Flatworm9115 t1_isrhna9 wrote

Ohio in northeast area is bad. Time Warner and the other one divide the areas up. You only have one option which is total bullshit. Can’t get the other company even if it’s across the street

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tankerkiller125real t1_issc4qz wrote

I'm one of the lucky ones that has both spectrum and ATT as an option... Reality is though that only Spectrum is good... ATT wants the same money for 5x slower speeds.

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shortybobert t1_isrsdq6 wrote

I'd still rather pay Comcast than plug my devices directly into the government

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DENelson83 t1_ispkhki wrote

But it won't, because it's just way too profitable to not fix it.

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Maleficent-Twist-308 t1_isprds2 wrote

What’s worse is these mega corps don’t even have to provide to your house to make money. The big boys own the Tier 1 backbone lines so even if you don’t have them, you likely are still paying a company who is paying them for use of the Tier 1 backbone they own. Most Tier 3 providers pay for use on Tier 1 backbone upstream from their service area.

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tankerkiller125real t1_isqs1k8 wrote

What I love is that the school districts in my county got so fed up with the big ISPs that they built their own data center, ran hundreds of miles of fiber, and managed to get Google, Level 3 and other major companies to peer inside their data center. They actually have enough peered bandwidth (without Comcast, Spectrum or ATT) that every district could have 50Gbs internet if they wanted.

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HopHunter420 t1_isqi134 wrote

Far as I can tell the whole telecoms situation in the US, both in the earth and in the air, is a sad joke.

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gargoso t1_isrz5w6 wrote

Large companies in USA have to much power.

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cookiebasket2 t1_iss54z7 wrote

ISPs spend more money in trying to keep down home grown internet than they do on improving their service. Compete and provide a better service at a reasonable rate and it'll stop other companies from coming in and taking all your dissatisfied customers.

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