San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold

Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold by adventured on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:42PM (#13387190)

The US ranks in the top 20 globally in regards to consumer Internet speeds, coming in ahead of: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Russia, Italy, Greece, Austria, Israel, Turkey, Ireland and the UK. In fact, the US has improved so much, it need only climb 3mbps to catch Japan on average consumer Internet speed, a drastic catch-up compared to the recent past. Further, most of the nations that rank in front of the US are tiny population wise.

Not only is your poor attempt at an insult bad manners here, you're also wrong.

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Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold by kuschku on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:20AM (#13391426)

First, it wasn’t an insult, second, just flagging a discussion down is even worse manners, and third,

I wasn’t questioning the availability of the speed itself (that might be quite good now), but the availability of choice.

And a sentence like "in some areas you can even choose between two options" is a sentence that you’d expect to hear in Soviet Russia. Or in North Korea. Or China. Or East Germany.

Not in the country that used to stand for competition, free market capitalism, and choice: the US.

And going from "'Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,' [Yeltsin] said.", to "some areas are served by two cable providers" is definitely a fall.

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