[Eug-lug] 20Mbps DSL? It could come to you.

[Ben Barrett]

I agree completely, and I'd love to see our uplink market get far more
competetive.  I'd love to be paying 1/3 of what I pay now, for 10x the
service (or better).  However, in our system the market dictates what is
"realistic".  The fact that I and many others pay Qwest and/or Comcast MAKES
their pricing realistic, in that they are profiting (and keeping customers,
more or less!)...  so who among us will start the *NEW* ISP which forces
more competition upon the market?  Anyone got a bunch of money to lose??  No
offense, but the big players are winning.  Or at least they're maintaining
the public image that they're winning.  Hard to tell, as a simple customer.

What else can we do, to pressure the service providers?  Does threatening to
swtich to a competitor really make a difference?  I almost always demand
that a message be passed along to a manager, something like, "Please stop
price-gouging us loyal customers, and provide the world-class service we
could get elsewhere for world-standard pricing." (when I'm on the phone with
Qworst or Bomcast for any other support reasons).   I doubt the message
means much but it makes me feel slightly empowered to think I have a voice,
heh.

Whatever happened to our Eugene free-wifi mesh?  ;)

~ben



On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM, <erock23175 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Make it $20 a month (unlimited phone, text, email, streaming...etc),
> basic cable, and high speed internet, and I think it would be worth it,
> otherwise I will stick with my lame ass 56k connection until service
> providers grow up and become realistic about their pricing.
>
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