[Discuss] Howdy

[John Abreau]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> I live in Newton where we have Vz (FIOS), Comcast, and RCN. In general my
> Comcast service has been excellent with any outage not their fault.


The difference is that you live in a town where there is actually some
competition in the broadband market, so the companies *have* to provide
good service in order to retain customers.

Most towns give a monopoly to one broadband provider, who then has
no incentive to give adequate service.



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