It's really not much of a free market. Oligopoly is more like it. Most
places you have two choices for internet, either the local phone company
or the local cable provider, some places allow third parties to provide
the service but the local phone company and/or local cable company own
the infrastructure. That's not really competition or a free market.
On 6/1/2013 3:23 PM, mike wilson wrote:
You guys, with your free-market economy, seem to be getting seriously
shafted on the price of internet access. One ploy that works quite
well here is to sign up to one of the special offers and give notice
the moment it runs out. The provider will almost always offer to
match any competitor's bid. Which may, or may not, exist.
On 01/06/2013, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote:
That is pricey, but the rural area challenges are appreciated. Glad you
mentioned satellite internet. I wondered about that option, but don't think
I'll pursue it now--not that I was really that serious about it. I mean if
it were between cable and satellite, I would think cable would be the better
option in an urban area.
Cheers, Christine
On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>
wrote:
It's both slow and expensive. Major carriers charge a premium for the
"hotspot" use.
3G is slow, but LTE can be quite fast. We live in a rural area, and
used to have satellite Internet (which was terrible). When Verizon LTE
got here, we got a Pantech UML290 LTE modem, and it has been
excellent. I just got 24.32 Mbps down, 6.38 Mbps up on Speedtest.net,
and the latency is excellent for interactive use like web browsing.
It's also been reliable in bad weather.
The downsides are the cost, and the fact that we're on a limited plan.
Our total bill is about $215/month for two iPhones and the LTE modem
on a shared 14 GB data plan (with unlimited voice and texting on the
phones). The data cap means we can't stream Netflix, do online
backups, etc.
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