[TriLUG] my relationship with TWC is at an end.

[Greg Brown]

Ah, yes, Lack of Competition that, sadly, in North Carolina is a legislated
thing.  On Frank Stasio's NPR program a while back he interviewed a
resident of rural Chatham County who's choices of Internet service are
dial-up and satellite, the Director of Public Relations, East Coast for
Time Warner and the Director of Telecommunications for Local Self-Reliance
and it was a very interesting show.  All sides brought up good points
relating to competition and I thought Mr. Stasio was fair though you kind
of knew going in that TWC was going to have its collective feet held to the
fire but, again, good points from all sides.  If anyone wants to give it a
listen the link is as follows:

http://wunc.org/post/rural-north-carolina-struggles-internet-access

Greg


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:35:24 -0500
> Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For the life of me I can't figure out how basic TWC high-speed with an
> > cable modem rental would come out to $60/month and it's less at
> > Earthlink riding over the same infrastructure.  Not much but a bit.
>
> Lack of competition.
>
> Brighthouse 1Mbit is almost $60 here, but my only alternative is
> Centurylink twisted pair, and they're almost as much, for 3Mbit if I'm
> lucky.
>
> SteveT
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