Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:52PM
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Can you buy 20Mbit service for $20? Municipal ISPs are the only hope to break the price fixing of the incumbents.
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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by throwawaysea on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:05PM
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I just checked and Comcast provides 25 Mbps service here for $20/month. There’s a large number of tiers going up to 1000 Mbps at $85/month, and an even pricier 2000 Mbps option. Other providers are available including CenturyLink, who offers 100 Mbps for $50/month and 1000 Mbps for $65/month.
Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by lotsofpulp on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:53AM
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Very few places have access to a symmetric fiber connection. I know from plugging in addresses over and over into Comcast and Centurylink’s website while searching for properties.
Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by KirillPanov on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:32AM
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And Centurylink is desperate to ensure that this kind of manual plugging of addresses into websites is the only way to find out anything about availability.
Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by lotsofpulp on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:46AM
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I learned to assume any development older than 2010 with buried utilities does not have fiber.
Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ...
by KirillPanov on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:57AM
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Unfortunately that's not really accurate. :(
CenturyLink has aerial fiber and underground copper in several areas. For example, in Aberdeen it happened because they got a grant from the FCC.
The whole situation is a mess, and CenturyLink likes the mess.