[TriLUG] TWC "Existing Customer Promotion"

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For most common Internet applications, 6 Mbps is actually more than enough.  So yes, even at slower speeds than TWC, there is competition for the average household, just not for people like you and I.  I hope and pray that Google Fiber is available at my home, if it isn't, I may even consider moving to a place that does have it!

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On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Brian Henning <bhenning at pineinst.com> wrote:

>> AT&T recently started offering up to I think 6mbps, but that is not exactly 'rampant' competition.
> 
> This was the point I was trying to make earlier about cable/DSL/WiMAX not being truly in competition.
> 
> Fastest cable speed available to me at any cost: 50Mbps/5Mbps
> Fastest DSL speed available to me at any cost: 6Mbps/??? (Frontier does not advertise their upstream bandwidth)
> Fastest WiMAX speed available to me at any cost: 5-12Mbps/2-5Mbps
> 
> Tell me exactly how 6Mbps competes with 50Mbps, or with 5-12Mbps that might drop to .001 when it rains or the wind is blowing or I walk through a particular room in the house.
> 
> If I'm a 50/5 Wideband customer with Time Warner Cable, there *is no alternative.*  Even in the case of reality (I'm a 15/2 Broadband customer) there's no alternative.
> 
> Where are these "competitors" you speak of?
> ~B