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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by newton10471 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:46PM (#17862721)
Do you live in NYC? I do, and I don't have at all what I'd call "a number of good options" for internet access. In my area, there's two companies who operate similar to a monopoly (Verizon and Optimum), and regularly raise prices arbitrarily and often for no reason.
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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by nategri on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:56PM (#17862803)
Having two choices actually might put you well above average for the US. Back when I was in Mountain View, CA (a few miles from Google HQ) it was either Comcast or nothing and the irony was not lost on me.
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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by komali2 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:03PM (#17862865)
AT&T had an offering when I lived in Mountain View that was so comically terrible as to not realistically be an option at all.
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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by fivefive55 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:01PM (#17880714)
This is still true as of last year. Comcast was the only viable option.
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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by berbec on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:12PM (#17862922)
You get two? My block on 78th and 1st has Twc, I mean Spectrum, and I don't know what I'm going to do when they get kicked out of the state.
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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by sebleon on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:08PM (#17862900)
Ah, I meant 'good' relative to options in the developing world. Getting +20Mb/s for under 0.1-5% of your annual income puts you way ahead of most people on Earth.

But yes, I'm sure there's cities out there with more options than NYC.

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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by crazygringo on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:15PM (#17865256)
Yeah... every apartment of mine has had exactly one option, TWC=>Spectrum (in Manhattan) or Optimum (in Brooklyn).

I've lived in 4 apartments in 7 years and never once had a choice.

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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by frenchman_in_ny on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:36PM (#17870113)
A lot of this may have to do with the building & management -- often times, the building's condo/coop board strikes an exclusivity deal with the ISPs and get a share of the revenue.

[I'm on a condo board]

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Re:NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your curren... by user9182031 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:08AM (#17867907)
I live in the West Village and have ONE choice... Spectrum :(
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