This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
ISPs, let me calibrate things for you:
Basically everyone in the US would prefer to just pay the FCC or their local or state governments directly for good and cost effective broadband. We all hate you with a passion and wish you would die as companies.
Yep, I just got local county fiber installed because Comcast would go down twice a day, at least. On top of that, I was paying out the ass for shitty upload speed and to remove the 1.2TB data cap. The local ISPs are about $60/mo for 1 gig up and down, compared to Comcast's $130/month for 1 "gig" down and 30 meg up.
What's really crazy about lopsided plans like that 1Gbps/30Mbps is that a lot of the time you straight up can't use that 1 gig down because your pitiful upstream gets completely saturated just trying to keep up with the ACKs you need to send back to confirm receipt of packets. More then 30Mbps upstream is literally a requirement if you want to utilise 1Gbps of downstream over TCP.
In France, a company called free.fr disrupted the ISP world and everyone had to reinvent themselves to follow. Now they have amazing speeds for super low prices compared to the USA.
They didn't disrupt anything.
They exported labor and exploited people from poorer countries more and faster than the historical ISPs which still had a strong local grounding and historic background as state agencies.
They were also the first ISP providing a service by using the ground networks of the other providers, so they built nothing.
And of course, after getting a lot marketshare with low prices, they have been riqing them again for the past 10 years.
The story of the modern age.
Comcast for decades has claimed on their site that they cover my parent's house but when you call to actually get service they never show up. To this day there's still no lines installed on the poles for broadband.
