Hey, whoa! Actual competition.

In before the rednecks in the State leg somehow pass a law against this to fark over Austin some more, just for laughs.

/ Time-Warner  craps they pants...

I almost feel bad for the ATT door to door salesman getting rejected by all of my neighbors before he can even finish his pitch. But then I remember who he works for, and I smile.

It was only a matter of time before somebody swooped in and started stealing some of the big carriers' sweet margins.

sure they are bringing fiber to the customer, well actually to the dslam/node, and not to the home, but hey its fiber to your general area and is within a brisk walking distance depending on which way the line snakes and you'll really enjoy the new speeds in your home and.............

/Bhell Canada markets a product called Fibe, which the customers call FIB(the 'e' is silent).

//Call agents in marketing call it fiber to the home instead of fiber to the node.

///illegal to market it saying to the home, but East Canada in Ontario and Quebec is the shiathole for consumer knowledge about Rights.

////Oh but the corporation denies any responsibility for their call agents, so if you can get the call agents name, sue them instead.

/All recordings of the crime by the call agent will not be released by Bhell without a court order because people are mean to Bhell.

//Teksavvy(third party DSL on the Bhell line) gets lots of disgruntled Bhell customers.


////Oh hey, Comcast no longer providing batteries for their back up for VOIP box. Either new install or old install.(Arris 822G EMTA).

Ain't actual competitive capitalism a biatch? What's a rent-seeking practitioner of regulatory capture to do?

Exactly what term or condition is GOOG getting that T isn't?

If they're the incumbent telco, they have all the right-of-way they could ever want.  I don't think KC or Austin is giving Google any investment incentives.

The only one I can think of is that T, as common carrier, is required to serve every home in their market while Google is picking and choosing neighborhoods.  But, it's not like T provides universally equitable service either.  They don't offer anything over 6/1 DSL to my address, but they get 24Mb VDSL in other neighborhoods (my town was part-way through the U-Verse install when they cancelled U-Verse expansion nationwide a few years back).

theorellior: Ain't actual competitive capitalism a biatch? What's a rent-seeking practitioner of regulatory capture to do?

DIAF?

I like uverse, but only compared to comcast. Plus they don't biatch about my data usage.

Why compete against Google-startup ISP when installing fiber somewhere else huge like Silicon Valley would do so much more for your image? Especially if you did it around Mountain View.

Pretty soon Google will reach 0.1% market share and start having to face antitrust lawsuits.

Not that this article is about ATT Wireless, but that is overpriced as well. My two year contract is up soon and I can't wait to ditch them for T-Mobile's new plans. I pay $70 a month to ATT and that price doesn't even include texting. Any texting. I pay an additional 20 cents a text, incoming or outgoing.

APE992: Smackledorfer: I like uverse, but only compared to comcast. Plus they don't biatch about my data usage.

Comcast actually discontinued data caps a while ago to figure out wtf they should do. Haven't heard a peep and some months I pull 500gb.

/it still sucks ass

That explains why their door to door numskull told me I was making them up yesterday.

Guy was a farktard.

Lawnchair: Exactly what term or condition is GOOG getting that T isn't?

If they're the incumbent telco, they have all the right-of-way they could ever want.  I don't think KC or Austin is giving Google any investment incentives.

The only one I can think of is that T, as common carrier, is required to serve every home in their market while Google is picking and choosing neighborhoods.  But, it's not like T provides universally equitable service either.  They don't offer anything over 6/1 DSL to my address, but they get 24Mb VDSL in other neighborhoods (my town was part-way through the U-Verse install when they cancelled U-Verse expansion nationwide a few years back).

AT&T can only give me 768k a mere 20 miles from their HDQ in Dallas.

/60 year old copper

How cute. They think they are entitled to government benefits

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

I am 80 miles away... so close, and yet so far....

/maybe they will expand here later
//I hope

theorellior: Ain't actual competitive capitalism a biatch? What's a rent-seeking practitioner of regulatory capture to do?

Sue?

APE992: Comcast actually discontinued data caps a while ago to figure out wtf they should do. Haven't heard a peep and some months I pull 500gb.

/it still sucks ass

I dunno, I get 2.4MB/s down for $35/mo. That beats the hell out of the dialup I had as a teen. Not perfect, but damned reasonable in my opinion.

But AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have all told me that consumers don't want 1Gb internet at affordable prices!  Now I don't know WHAT to think!!!

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: But AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have all told me that consumers don't want 1Gb internet at affordable prices!  Now I don't know WHAT to think!!!

Don't think.  That's what AT&T, Verizon and Comcast want

I was wondering -- are there any Farkers out there in the KC metropolitan area that is using the Gigabit service from Google? Does it actually make a difference?

Cocksuckers will do as little as possible until someone comes in and decides to not sell everyone shiat sandwiches.

Arkanaut: I was wondering -- are there any Farkers out there in the KC metropolitan area that is using the Gigabit service from Google? Does it actually make a difference?

All I know is, they haven't yet put it in north of the river, which is dumb... it's where all of the boring rich white people with porn-watching sons live.

/not that I'd know

Someone put Time Warner Cable out of the public's misery.

/Go Google!!!

Arthur Jumbles: Hey AT&T, you want that same accommodations that Google gets? Why don't you try:

1) Offer a quality service!
2) Learn how to make a profit without a government-backed monopoly!
3) Stop sucking so much!

I got an idea - why don't we stop offering them a monopoly to begin with?

/local governments are mostly to blame for our fark'd up internet infrastracture

Meanwhile Time Warner squats in the corner sucking it's thumb and drooling a bit.

gingerjet: Arthur Jumbles: Hey AT&T, you want that same accommodations that Google gets? Why don't you try:

1) Offer a quality service!
2) Learn how to make a profit without a government-backed monopoly!
3) Stop sucking so much!

I got an idea - why don't we stop offering them a monopoly to begin with?

/local governments are mostly to blame for our fark'd up internet infrastracture

Except here, where Time-Warner and Comcast paid the state legislature to effectively ban cities from building municipal fiberoptic networks.

I can hardly wait until I can tell TWC that I don't have to put up with their craptacular billing site, which has "lost" my account information at least four times in the past five years, forcing me back to paying my bills by phone for months on end.

Long story short -- pay by phone when all other bills are online means a high chance of "missing" a payment -- with the inevitable fees that caused.  Especially when the reminders and paper billing would stop.

I am constantly getting flyers in the mail about AT&T Fusion internet.  That's their high speed DSL2.  This has been going on for years.  It is not available in my area.  Fark 'em.

gingerjet: Arthur Jumbles: Hey AT&T, you want that same accommodations that Google gets? Why don't you try:

1) Offer a quality service!
2) Learn how to make a profit without a government-backed monopoly!
3) Stop sucking so much!

I got an idea - why don't we stop offering them a monopoly to begin with?

/local governments are mostly to blame for our fark'd up internet infrastracture

The Feds actually broke up AT&T 25 years ago.

This is really Southwestern Bell.