You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works

Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by gremlinsinc on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:56AM (#13994914)

I'm in utah...maybe it's just different here, but we have Utopia which owns the conduit, and leases out to different ISP's who own the networking equipment. I'm with X-mission who's CEO is a big privacy advocate, and supporter of EFF. But there's google fiber in places, there's x-mission and about 5-6 other utopia-leasing ISP's locally you can choose - and that's just for fiber, you also have Comcast, Qwest(DSL), and CenturyLink, and a few others.

Even in rural Cedar City down south you have about 5 ISP choices. Though the highest speed looks to be TDS at 300MBps

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by lovich on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:44AM (#13995247)

In mass you are lucky if you get 2 options. My building finally got another company to connect after 12+ years of Comcast only. In suburbs around boston you get a mix of Comcast+RCN, Comcast only, Comcast+Verizon, Verizon only.

Ive usually seen 120 MBps/$80 as the max but in my aforementioned building Comcast sent us a friendly email saying we were being upgraded to 200 MBps at the same rate, the day before our building announced the second ISP available at 100 MBps/$69. That smells to me a lot like they always had the capacity, but never turned it on until they finally had competition.

Note: It looks like Comcast has started offering a 2000 MBps connection for 299 a month. Maybe it was just a coincidence that they were adding new capacity at the same time

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by UncleMeat on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:08PM (#13998872)

Bay area here. Its in my lease that I need to use Comcast for any wired internet connection.

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by orthecreedence on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:28PM (#13999034)

I'm so incredibly surprised this hasn't been sued out of existence for anti-competitive behavior. Not that people in the Bay Area ever have more than one choice to begin with for internet service (AT&T and Comcast seem to split the area up amongst themselves).

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