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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 52 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm on former Centurylink fiber which was similarly sold off to private equity. Other than the name changes and wonkiness with accessing my account in their system, its been...fine actually? The connection is more stable than it ever was under Centurylink for one thing, and my bill hasn't changed at all in the years since

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Every ISP is pretty shit to be fair. Doubt whoever they sell to is worse than the other options.

(fuck spectrum)

[–] Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

For real. Last year we finally got some competition against Spectrum and their customer service is actually worse than Spectrum. I didn't imagine that was possible

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

All I do is bitch at Spectrum on the phone once a year and they barely increase my bill.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)

[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

I haven't used RCN/Astound since COVID, but they were pretty decent before then. Far better than Comcast.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 8 points 19 hours ago

Dodged a bullit today. Pretty lucky