Yeah competition stinks :-(
Its actually not that bad because.... They leave out all the details like...
They won't pull the cable over 50feet from the pole. In the suburbs, front
yards are often very large, sometimes a small farm. They cherry pick the
prime neighborhoods, and forget the rest.
They don't offer it to businesses.
Don't give static IPs. Prohibit hosting. Etc, Etc.
Its a Network Neutrality issue ready to happen.
The way it hurts us most is... A business customer calls for service and you
ask them what they are looking for, and they respond "no less than 30mbps",
then you ask them how much they want to pay, and they say "$50/month", and
then you tell them "$2000", and they hang up the phoen on you calling you a
cheat. Then 20 minutes later they call back to appologize, when they learn
their alternative was 1mbps for $500.
The truth is, situations like FIOS is why I beleive the governement should
subsidize Broadband competition. Just like they subsidize Farmers. One day
will come when independant ISPs or WISPs will No be able to compete, and
then the two monoplies will control the world. The Telecom president will
become more powerful than the US president. And they will wish that they
had kept the small guys around to keep everyone honest.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
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