> Frontier

Yeah, fiber is great, but good luck with Frontier as a service provider. I had them for a decade.

Agreed, my company is doing it they should too

Perhaps Comcast should work harder on switching everything over to fiber in that case so they can remain competitive in the ISP market.

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Because fiber cost next to nothing for hundreds of feet. Coax cost $80,000 per mile. 500 feet with all the electrical components would cost approximately $7500. Then it’s about $150 to the install (labor for tech roll) $200 for the modem and wire and another 150 to bury the new service drop. So the cable company would have to spend 8 grand to get $60 a month. And who’s to say the new customer wouldn’t cancel after 3 months?

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Yeah originally it was a cooperative game with alternate rules to explore how awful it would be to fight over housing. Nobody found the intended rules to be fun so, by the time it was mass produced, they dropped the primary rule set.

Had Frontier as the only option in my small town for a few years until they sold our sector off to Ziply. The best thing I could say about Frontier was that they weren't Comcast. They certainly weren't amazing by any stretch, but they were better than Comcast. Never had an issue with throttling on Frontier like I did with Comcast.

Yeah Windstream is trying right alot of wrongs they committed. They have a long way to go but I highly recommend them if you can get fiber.

They are so scared......

The real rules?

Might be an internal name

Comcast gonna go for that “You only get internet when you buy cable” strategy soon.

By the originally-alternate rules that were supposed to disgust players, drive them to the real rules, and show them the value of cooperative development!

It's no surprise. I see what basic cable is like at my mom's house. The quality of content is just so much worse than when I cut the cord mid 2000's. It's unwatchable. And wicked expensive.

I've had comcast and cox. They are essentially the same money grabbing companies. I just cut cox 3 years ago because my internet went from 300 Mbps uncapped for $65 to 300 Mbps uncapped for $95 per month. The cap wouldn't allow my family to stream endlessly and we have 3 google nest camera. Plus I was paying around $250 for internet and cable TV package. Switched to another company in my area offering Gigabit fiber for $60 per month for life. So much better. Cable TV is becoming worthless and isn't worth more then $35 per month. Plus I get 33 channels OTA for free. I spent a one time $200 payment to get a large antenna installed in my attic. Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Paramount Plus (~$50) + Gigabit Fiber ($60) = $110 per month.

We were always at war with chat.

I think they were caught unaware by Microsoft partnering with ChatGPT for Bing search.

I estimate they will go out of business between the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. but somewhere around 7:30 p.m. actually.

They should have implemented them into Google Assistent then. That program does not do a great job.

That's good news. Glad to see at least one of the landline companies is actually serving its customers.

Love LibreOffice

I don't understand advertising 1gb when most people are just going to get the cheap 250 or whatever plan.