04-22-2018, 09:07 AM | #61 | |
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This is a common occurrence in the Midwestern USA, at least. And Comcast prices internet service only high enough that the costs remain similar. |
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04-22-2018, 10:03 AM | #62 | |
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04-22-2018, 10:10 AM | #63 | |
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04-22-2018, 12:50 PM | #64 | |
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Wireless providers are out there and you can get pretty good speeds with 4G, but streaming video takes a lot of bandwidth and most wireless providers either don't do unlimited or throttle once you get past a fairly small limit. |
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04-22-2018, 09:53 PM | #65 | |
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04-22-2018, 10:32 PM | #66 | |
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04-23-2018, 04:56 AM | #67 | |
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Government is the biggest culprit when it comes to cable monopolies. I personally wouldn't be real thrilled living in an area when the government had a monopoly on providing high speed internet, such ventures rarely turn out well. |
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04-23-2018, 08:09 AM | #68 | |
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04-23-2018, 08:39 AM | #69 | |
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My own city started building their internet in 1998 before I moved there. They started with cable, always a little slower than what is now part of Spectrum. Then some years ago they started slowly building a fiber optic backbone. Schools and all city buildings get fiber optic all the way, for regular people a fiber node goes to 80-120 cable modems (on average a block away). Even with all that the price went down this year from $38 to $30 a month. |
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04-23-2018, 10:49 AM | #70 | |
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04-23-2018, 11:31 AM | #71 | |
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04-23-2018, 01:02 PM | #72 |
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Philadelphia is the home city of Comcast. As a result, Comcast gets a lot of preferential treatment. Several of Comcast's competitors have tried to get access to the city over the past three decades, but all but one have been blocked by Philadelphia's city council. Heck, Philadelphia's city council tried to ban satellite dishes, (which was just ruled against by the FCC last week).
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04-23-2018, 01:24 PM | #73 | |
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04-23-2018, 06:42 PM | #74 |
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I last renewed my Prime membership May 6. Today I see at Amazon's website that my next renewal is scheduled for June 6. I spoke with an Amazon rep, and apparently I am getting a month free! Anybody else?
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04-23-2018, 06:55 PM | #75 | |
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The person on the other end had no earthly idea what I was trying to say, but he insisted me he was going to extend my Prime subscription by another month for free. I said "thank you very much" and archived the order (so I don't have to look at it in my account), since they didn't seem interested in getting it corrected. I wasn't calling to complain--and it was all very pleasant--I was making sure it wouldn't cause any problems on their end. But hey ... I'll take it! Prime subscription extended from June to July. |
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