Posted on 01/29/2015 1:21:11 PM PST by Enlightened1
Darn, those are good speeds. I would have killed for those numbers back in ‘96. (Kidding)
They are dragging their feet, charging people $50 bucks a month for 750kb or 1.5 Mb in lots of places
ATT are crooks, and flush with cash, wouldn’t worry about them going bankrupt.
I was still on my portable SCM Smith Corona Electra 120, back then.
Really?
ATT is capable but refuses to do so in lots of places all over the country
They charge $50 bucks though, but will cut that in half if you threaten to disconnect.
Well I’ve been on 52K Dial Up ever since I went on line in 1998. AT&T isn’t going to upgrade land lines in rural areas. They are phasing out the residential land line. Comcast showed up in the area and did just enough to claim territory but is a quarter mile way with no intentions of going further. Gee maybe Mr Wizard Obama wave his magic ink pen and give me high speed service. /extreme sarcasm
Sure looks like one! Edison must have ‘chawed tobakky’!..........
ooooo, Electra! So you had a powered typewriter! Leading edge! :-) Careful, you could be dating yourself too well!
I'm going to disagree with you on this one, Laz. If this is simply about defining what the term "broadband" means from an advertising/marketing standpoint, I'm good with this. I don't see anything here forcing the providers to change what they're offering, just a requirement that "broadband" actually means something, and things that offer less shouldn't use the term.
On my idle farm outside of “small town”, MN, last year, they pulled in fiber, for free! But not where I currently live, in a populated area. :-)
No, they're not saying that. They're saying if you want to market something as "broadband", it needs to be at least 25. They're perfectly free to sell you the 6 as long as they don't advertise it as "broadband".
That’ll hold for 6 months or maybe a year. Then you’ll be hearing from the FCC that your bandwidth is too low and you need to upgrade. It’s all part of the communist plot to take over the US. It was written into Federal Register by Congressman A. S. Herlong on January 10, 1963.
It is useless to resist. You really need 25.
I handle video streaming, web browsing, and digital purchases all on the same computer out of two in the house, with little lag, and that is on Comcast at 8mbps
It reminds me of the advertising pitch that screens for TVs keep having higher and higher resolutions per square inch or square cm
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