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Originally Posted by Professor S
Reading Mana's post, perhaps I am being parochial. I live in the Philly area and there is a ton of competition, but then again, I don't know how it is in Kansas, only nationally. If this can increase competition, and does not over regulate, them I'm all for it. As I've said before, I am not a 100% free-marketer. I am a 100% competition...er.  |
Well I grew up in a rural area, Broadband wasn't even offered inside the town part of our county until 2002. When I left for college Mid-2004 broadband still wasn't offered in my part of the county. Even when it was offered everyone said it wasn't much faster than dial-up, and I'm not sure it still is. I remember being at a friend's house in 2006 when I visited, and he was connecting at like 100k and was paying 59.99 a month for the pleasure. We couldn't even playing Halo online really without serious lag. (Well he couldn't, I was just watching).
It's still a ridiculous price in the county from what I hear, something upwards of 55ish for a plan I got for 19.99 a month in the county that was 20 miles away. Often in places like that there is either no broadband, or no competition for the one ISP, so it's either pay them a stupid amount of money or don't get high speed internet at all. I see this as quite the good thing.