Hi, my name’s Savin, and I live under a Comcast monopoly. Wherein Comcast (literally yesterday, in a matter of supreme irony given Fen’s post) sent a truck over, knocked the telephone pole over at a 45′ angle, and then denied it on customer service for two hours because apparently my internet being out must be a modem problem. While the pole outside is sitting halfway down with a truck-shaped dent in it. Thanks, Comcast, you guys have the best customer service. I’m glad I don’t have any other competitive ISPs in my area! 😀
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Clearly your modem knocked the pole over.
Goddamned truck-shaped modems, that are obviously operated by lunatic customers, who do not know how to do anything with these modems, let alone what they are for and why they are truckshaped.
Dammit, beat me to it.
At one point, when I had comcast, it went out. When their guy came over (after 2 days of outage), he said “Oh, I know what must have happened. Your neighbor just signed up, so they must have given your connection to them while they set up another connection. I’ll plug you back in.” ” …….. “
Orrrrrr, you can support breaking up monopolies so that you have choices.
Unfortunately, it’s not a traditional monopoly. The various ISPs (autocorrect made it IS PREGNANT?!?!?) have divided up the country and don’t have the infrastructure in many places to compete with each other.
Then mandate the ISPs to rent out cables to competetors, or nationalize the fiber network and rent it out to companies.
Of course, this all reeks of teh soshalizms, so it will never happen, despite most certainly bringing prices down due to added competition between companies, and allowing for start-up ISPs to access the network without a massive overhead cost of laying down cables.
Local Loop Unbundling. The UK was very successful with it. No reason we can’t be.
I have no idea what that is Fen.
Given enough time and effort we could do it, but currently there are laws preventing it.
I’ll give you two guesses as to who the driving force behind said laws was?
The problem with any issue comparing the US to any country besides Russia, China and maybe Canada is the pure size. By size the US is the size of all of Europe and whether many issues can be scaled up is difficult.
Not that I don’t agree with Fen, but many people don’t realize that solutions used in European countries aren’t an apples to apples comparison.
@TayJK
for your information the US is more like 75% of Europe , maybe about the size of the EU
No Savin, you didn’t want your internet enough so the pole decided to teach you a lesson about having a more care for your job.
Comcast did nothing wrong.
>Comcast did nothing wrong.
See, the problem here is that this joke compares Comcast to Hitler. That’s not fair. To Hitler.
In the end, Hitler killed Hitler, which is an example that Comcast has yet to follow.
Hitler died in Argentina, Comcast and it’s ilk won’t take their pills.
Maybe Pyrrha from RWBY was in the area.
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Cause she can control poles….
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I’ll see myself out.
sucks that that happened, but do you live in such a rural area that the cables are still on poles etc?
It’s more economical to have them be connected via towers (pre-existing infrastructure) in more sparsely populated areas, yes. Only in suburbs and urban areas are they dug into the ground, if memory serves me right.
so basically kinda India-styleish? I can only judge by the area I live in and come through. I think the last time I saw a phonepole/utility pole or w/e it’s called was some time in the 90s.
Yeah I live in a fairly rural area. There’s waaaaay more cows than people around here.
What’s the Cow-to-Human ratio?
I’d *guess* something like 10:1. You can drive and see cows all the way to the horizon on the roadside.
How many Cow Girls?
Far too few.
I like in a rural area too. Just wish I had DSL instead of that crap I’m getting from Dish. Sad thing really is the fact that I can walk down to the stop sign and be standing right on a road with DSL. But they say it’s not economical for them to run it down our road.
live*. Tonight must be my night for typos.
At&t isn’t that much better. In fact, that sounds like something they would say, too.
Atleast At&t have put their name behind the initiative against replacing Net Neutrality.
That’s not a good thing. Neutrality is a myth but whatever the Corporations choose to replace it with WILL be worse!
I’ve said it be and I’ll say it again: be glad you don’t have satellite Internet from Dish Network.
Before*
*Laughs in German where shit like this is literally illegal*
*Mirthfully cackles along in Danish*
*Maniacally laughs in a British manner, because why not?*
*Stands on American soil while glaring jealously at the German, British, and Danish guys.
Don’t be too jealous, at least we’re not suffering a terrorist attack a week from Islamist jihadists,
Eyyyy
I really don’t think “murder rates and massacres” is a good field for an American to mount a patriotic defence in.
*looks sadly at Danish litigation letter for downloading movies*
You can thank the germans for that, and their overreach into the privacy of danish internet users.
Dunno, Danish law firms that sueing so.. eh.
Comcast is terrified by competition. The merest hint of google fiber coming to an area is enough to cause them to collectively shit themselves then spin up a local propaganda campaign about how GF is going to skyrocket prices and ruin the cable/internet for everyone in the town
Sad part is some people are stupid enough to believe that BS.
Saddest part: I could see Comcast *actually* raising prices to try trick the people who didn’t *quite* believe them, and then not lowering the prices until GF is gone, and then only lower it to the halfway mark between the old price and the new price.
Surprisingly I have to agree with Savin and his Jewish brain on this issue at least in terms of stupid monopolies.
I could never be more thankful that I get 1gb Google Fiber for $20/month at my apartment.
I can never thank the high heavens of porn enough that my damn phone can give me better internet reception than any of the nearby or even far away internet cafe’s
its so sad that companies just take their right to be shitstains as soon as they have a monopoly
A few years ago in, in my hometown, there was a bill passed that made the city lay fiber optic cables around, and get a ISP which wasn’t in my town before. As people started switching from Comcast (Cancercast?) and all the other ISPs over to the new one, they started throttling our speeds. Was nice to switch over. So nows its like $50 a month for gig internet. Its nice.
Plus, Fibre Optic cables can transmit the data better than regular cables. Also, where do you live? (I’m asking because an entire town with a Fibre Optic cable system sounds like a great place to live.)
Longmont Colorado. Decently large city.
Okay so i work at a call center that is tech support for a lot of of internet providers, thankfully not comcast, mostly third party companies. Now normally we start by having the customer check the modem and we have to document the brand, model, and light read out. its just something we have to document before we can go further in troubleshooting. and after that we normally ask “so did anything happen before the internet went out” all the techs i work with, if you just said “ya your tech hit the dang pole and knocked it over” we wouid then put you on hold and check with a super viser which would be without a doubt an escalation to get that fixed
try using exede
try using exede internet
I had Comcast up until a little over a year and a half ago. Our internet would mysteriously go out every 2 hours for 20 minutes. After trying multiple times to schedule an appointment (or talk to anyone with half a brain) we never got a person out, and while at the store I was talking to a Verizon Tech and we literally had our new connection up and running when we got home that night.
Have had no issues with Verizon, and they aren’t throttling my speeds like Comcast was (though they say they don’t).
I love how a lot of the time ISP’s will use the “Its not a monopoly since you can get X shitty internet service or a satellite provider” (which are usually, in my experiences, garbage or finicky). There is a reason a lot of cable/ISP companies are rated as the worst companies in America (both from a consumer standpoint and an employee standpoint).
I’m pretty sure Verizon was throttling our internet some time ago. Our internet would go out for days at a time and only work for maybe 2 hours when it did work.
If I can clearly state that it was a Comcast truck, I would call the local police’s info tip line on an observed hit-and-run incident, not knowing who exactly owns the pole.
You might want to actually read the 2015 net neutrality rules. They would help Comcast in the circumstance, not hurt it. The current rules give a tiny number of politicians the ability to selectively pick and choose what new ISP’s can enter the market at their discretion. So rather than having to bribe the local government everywhere in the country, Comcast need only bribe 2-3 people in Washington.
Net Neutrality is great.
The 2015 rules are a train wreck.
I find it mildly disconcerting that so many people support them without having actually read them.
Should of recorded it. Thier word against yours.