unless youre cool with internet 1/8th the speed for basically the same price.
We realize our service is more important than ever, given students are learning remotely and adults are working from home. Anyway, your next bill will reflect a slight change in which we charge you 25% more for the exact same service. God bless and thanks for choosing Comcast!
I’m in the internet utility industry and it’s only going to get worse. They and other massive corps just got billions in funding from the FCC through these RDOF and ReConnect programs to provide rural internet. It was a really fucked up and very American process. There’s nothing binding them to doing it successfully, and it’s entrenching monopolies over smaller local internet providers, driving them out. Nothing new there of course, but this year was like Prop 22 levels bad for the future of fiber internet development in underserviced areas. Oh plus Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service got a ton of money too, over rural providers literally ready and able to provide fiber hookups. Pretty wild
yup the oligarchs in internet industry work super hard to lobby for their interest. They've had effective oligopolies for years. Before I lived where i live now, the only option for internet was suddenlink and they were somehow even worse than comcast but at least had the excusse of not being one of the biggest companies ever.
Shit really sucks for the future of the net if we don't nationalize it. :deeper-sadness:
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i live in an area where they're your literal only choice unless youre cool with internet 1/8th the speed for basically the same price.
omega turbo fuck comcast into the sun. wall.
We realize our service is more important than ever, given students are learning remotely and adults are working from home. Anyway, your next bill will reflect a slight change in which we charge you 25% more for the exact same service. God bless and thanks for choosing Comcast!
:angery: too real lmao
I’m in the internet utility industry and it’s only going to get worse. They and other massive corps just got billions in funding from the FCC through these RDOF and ReConnect programs to provide rural internet. It was a really fucked up and very American process. There’s nothing binding them to doing it successfully, and it’s entrenching monopolies over smaller local internet providers, driving them out. Nothing new there of course, but this year was like Prop 22 levels bad for the future of fiber internet development in underserviced areas. Oh plus Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service got a ton of money too, over rural providers literally ready and able to provide fiber hookups. Pretty wild
yup the oligarchs in internet industry work super hard to lobby for their interest. They've had effective oligopolies for years. Before I lived where i live now, the only option for internet was suddenlink and they were somehow even worse than comcast but at least had the excusse of not being one of the biggest companies ever.
Shit really sucks for the future of the net if we don't nationalize it. :deeper-sadness: