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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by axaxs on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:13PM (#21784962)
I feel like this is some form of Stockholm Syndrome. You shouldn't pay more. You should be getting better speeds for the same or lesser price. Technology is advancing and the carriers are purposely holding us back, for exactly the reason you gave.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by takeda on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:02PM (#21785993)
If ADSL is cheap I actually would prefer to have it for redundancy. Phone line and cable is generally the only lines that are routed to a home that can be used for Internet.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by rhino369 on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:58PM (#21786773)
Deploying fiber is expensive. He’s going to have to pay for it—AT&T isn’t a charity.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by JustSomeNobody on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:04PM (#21787301)
You sure? We tax payers have given it $Billions and AT&T hasn’t met its obligations for that money. I bet if one were to trace it, it was funneled to rich shareholders.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by zmzrr on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:20PM (#21785046)
ISPs should lay out an expensive fibre network (so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it) and I should pay less money? That's just crazy.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by kstrauser on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:29PM (#21785130)
Why? We already paid them $400 billion dollars to get you decent Internet access (see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...). I think that gives us the right to expect you to have something better than 14Mbps DSL at a decent price.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by keanebean86 on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:25PM (#21785667)
> so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it

Part of that cost comes from ATT and Comcast using their government sugar daddy to make running fiber as expensive and difficult as possible.

Example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-...

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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by axaxs on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#21785156)
Absolutely! Even ignoring all the stimulus money and tax breaks probably given, municipalities all over the US are building out their own fiber that is blowing the others away in performance and even price usually.
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