AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose

Re:AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that fe... by DanBC on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @11:53AM (#7744417)

I would love to see sensible comparisons of available bandwidth for different countries. This would have to include some weird kludges of average pricing over cable, dial-up, satellite, and mobile. (And maybe wifi plans too).

The ISP industry doesn't feel like a free market.

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Re:AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that fe... by rsynnott on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:37PM (#7747527)

Also, extremely regional. For instance, I currently get a 12mbit/sec service for 30 euro a month. In my old apartment, less than a mile away, I got 120mbit/sec for 40 euro a month (and could have gotten 200mbit/sec for 45). Assuming that the telecom gets a move on with its VDSL rollout, in a couple of months, I'll get 100mbit for 35 euro a month. And that's in a city; it gets a lot messier in many rural areas, where the only plausible non-wireless providers can be fixed microwave.

That said, there's no consumer service remotely as expensive as that AT&T one here.

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