Comcast Sucks Monkey Balls

[stuveltje]

i wonder, is there alot of competition in the usa with internet providers, because we have tons here and the prices are very very low

[zack2004]

Well, the Comcast upgrade has hit New Jersey they are now running at about dial-up speed if at alll! IF the phone company had any "smarts" they could put these assholes out of business. I already have fiber run to the house from Verizon, if they had their shit together they would jump all over this. |shocking|

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by zack2004

Well, the Comcast upgrade has hit New Jersey they are now running at about dial-up speed if at alll! IF the phone company had any "smarts" they could put these assholes out of business. I already have fiber run to the house from Verizon, if they had their shit together they would jump all over this. |shocking|

Where in Jersey are you? You have to be down south west. That's where most of the FISO is starting out. They allowed that law to pass which allows telco companies to compete with the broadband fuckers. Well I should not call them fuckers, Optium was great. Verizon is going to have a hard time getting people to leave them. The service is 2nd to none. But they should be able to pull alot of Comcast users. Comcast is like stuck in this AOL frame of mind. It's so fucking bad.

[zack2004]

Originally Posted by juggernaut

Where in Jersey are you?

I live in Toms River. Years ago, AT&T wanted to supply cable TV via the phone lines and made the local phone company (Bell Atlantic) run fiber to every house in town.
The deal never happened but I have a bundle of dark fiber run to the house. Only one strand is now being used for my phone service. The amount of bandwidth of all this dark fiber is nuts.
Who knows, in the early nineties a 2gig drive was more then you could fill in a lifetime and cell phones were the size of bricks.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

i wonder, is there alot of competition in the usa with internet providers, because we have tons here and the prices are very very low

Surprisingly America lags well behind most European countries with Internet connections Stuveltje. There are far fewer people connected in America, and of those who are, far less have broadband availability. No idea why, since America invented the damn thing.

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Surprisingly America lags well behind most European countries with Internet connections Stuveltje. There are far fewer people connected in America, and of those who are, far less have broadband availability. No idea why, since America invented the damn thing.

The problem is there is a monopoly on broadband. By law it's not a monopoly but it's set up in such a way that anyone who want's to offer a broadband service in an area where you have cable companies set up already. They have to meet some crazy requirements in order to set up shop. Something like getting 75% of the people in the town to sign a paper stating they would use your company. You also have to prove you can provide the service. Because of this cable broadband companies now have a lock on the service for differant towns. You can only pick a satalite company if you want something other then cable tv. You can't pick another cable company cause they will not be in the area. As far as the internet goes this was a problem for New Jersey. The only people able to compete with the cable companies are the telco's IE Verizon. They meet the requirements but the cable companies tried to block them (by law) from offering TV service to peoples homes along with broadband. The law was finnally passed which allows them to provide this service. The law only passed a few months ago which is why if you live in Jersey you can search and find that the FISO service is rolling out rather fast now. The only reason the law passed was cause pepople are tired of the crappy service (most of which is comcast throughout the state). Either way I don't care if comcast ups their speeds and service. I will be going with the FISO when it's here.