Even in our small local (35-miles away) town of fewer than 3000, there are 9 free wifi hotspots. Tire place, Supermarket etc.
Plenty of opportunity to throw (not willingly) good money after bad, but if you need DSL, you need DSL and with just one provider, options are one-to-none.
We have lived in the boonies for years and in various locations throughout the State, but always the only option for phone and DSL was Frontier. So, I am guessing they are pretty much only interested in zero-competition locales. Well, except for even worse providers like satellite.
That said, they charge what they think the market will bear and that is kinda OK for Capitalism, but what irks me the most is the service they provide. Or, make that "don't provide."
Our DSL contract does not state ANY minimum speed. It does not state "broadband," it does say, "ADSL Internet" and they live well within that promise. On a good time of day we can get 6M-down but mostly it is barely above 1M-down.
After 8:30pm, the Netflix test videos will struggle to climb to 640 x 480 so fuzzy movies with sound drop-outs, is a constant way of life unless you are watching at 10:00am over morning coffee.
Providing such "service," it comes as no surprise that they are forcing customers to call. They want more of the good stuff ($$$) to erode those speeds even farther. But, when they have a captive audience, that's their prerogative.
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Plenty of opportunity to throw (not willingly) good money after bad, but if you need DSL, you need DSL and with just one provider, options are one-to-none.
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That said, they charge what they think the market will bear and that is kinda OK for Capitalism, but what irks me the most is the service they provide. Or, make that "don't provide."
Our DSL contract does not state ANY minimum speed. It does not state "broadband," it does say, "ADSL Internet" and they live well within that promise. On a good time of day we can get 6M-down but mostly it is barely above 1M-down.
After 8:30pm, the Netflix test videos will struggle to climb to 640 x 480 so fuzzy movies with sound drop-outs, is a constant way of life unless you are watching at 10:00am over morning coffee.
Providing such "service," it comes as no surprise that they are forcing customers to call. They want more of the good stuff ($$$) to erode those speeds even farther. But, when they have a captive audience, that's their prerogative.
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