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hunter

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9. Yep. Quit Comcast and fight for alternative ISP service, especially local service providers.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 15, 2017, 11:46 AM

Dec 2017

The business models of cable television and 20th century phone providers, the so-called tel-com industry, are obsolete so they have to buy politicians to enforce their monopolies and exclude competitors.

I told Comcast to go away a long time ago, years before they offered internet service in our community. I pay people to take garbage away from my house, not to deliver it.

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Congratulations on your Big Win today, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cox, etc! [View all] mr_lebowski Dec 2017 OP

Because that is what the Internet was like in 2015 before "net neutrality". Oh wait, it wasn't. PoliticAverse Dec 2017 #1

Oh, so you believe prior to 2015, there was no 'Net Neutrality'? mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #2

That thing about Portugal that circulated was rated "mostly false" by Snopes. PoliticAverse Dec 2017 #3

I linked a friggin article explaining the whole thing there ... guess you didn't click ... mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #5

If the internet access service market is as inelastic as you assume onenote Dec 2017 #4

They probably can't compete with Amazon, but Spotify & Netflix? mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #6

I agree that the repeal opens the door for anticompetitive behavior onenote Dec 2017 #11

Or, you could leave Comcast brooklynite Dec 2017 #7

LOL...yeah they do,at least where I live in the MONOPOLY of COX Bengus81 Dec 2017 #8

Lol ... yeah. I used Comcast as a generic example, we actually have Cox here as well ... mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #12

Yep. Quit Comcast and fight for alternative ISP service, especially local service providers. hunter Dec 2017 #9

We only have one provider where I live: Spectrum/TWC LeftInTX Dec 2017 #10