ReasonablySober wrote:Same with Charter/Spectrum. I very much miss the says of $30 monthly broadband. It's now $79.99, which they can charge because there's no competition here somehow.
I could lower it a little bit if I was willing to go with slower speeds, but I'm paying $122 with Xfinity for 400 Mbps and unlimited data. It would be $92 without unlimited (1.2 TB cap). When I called to try to get them to lower my overall price, the lady actually suggested going up to 800 Mbps. I reminded her that I don't want to spend MORE money.
Our speeds are good for us. If my son and I weren't gamers, we could probably go with lower speeds, but the savings aren't that great, so there's no point in screwing up one of the pastimes we enjoy the most.
I looked up competition and was slightly hopeful when I saw AT&T had fiber, but alas, not at my address. Google Fiber is in some parts of town, but not here. AT&T's non-fiber speeds are crap. All other competitors I saw were slow, so I didn't bother looking at their prices.
If T-Mobile and Verizon can keep improving their speeds for home internet as the years go on, we might be onto something.