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, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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