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We need more competition..

The incumbant broadband providers are up to the same tricks in Florida..

I.E. Lock out the muni's from providing any broadband service. The bills are snaking they way thru the various chambers as I write. Florida House bill 1325 and Florida Senate bill 2072.

Currently, the incumbents have very little incentive to maintain ANY quality control. Incumbents in my area are Comcast(Generally sucky, poor reliability, bundling, onerous terms of service) or Bell south (similar bundling issue)& their resellers.

You can get decent terms through a BS reseller. But the underlying Bellsouth DSL service SUCKS BIG TIME. They've overloaded the underground cables in my area with too many DSL circuits. Every evening, the area DSL modems retrain down to 512Kb/sec(downstream) or less and stays there. None the less, we're still paying full price for this crappy DSL service.

Both incumbents of broadband services are unregulated, with no government over-site. There is very little area residents can do. The many pleas to BS to fix the problems have fallen upon deaf ears.

As I see it, only a muni broadband service could force the other providers into maintaining some as-semblance of quality control and service levels. I.E. Take away the bottom tier (via muni wireless) so the incumbents are forced to deliver the promised bandwidths and services.

What I suspect the incumbents are really afraid of, is the loss of bundling. (Cable bundles Internet service with TV service and CLEC company bundles DSL with POTS). If I had Muni-wireless service. Then I could dump my BS line and switch my phone # to a cell service. Then I could really save some money.

Thus one strategy is to ask your legislators to end these bundling practices by the broadband incumbents. Force them to give up their price discrimination in exchange for locking out the muni's.

Posted by: thetruth_z   Posted on: 05/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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