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It's no surprise that cable companies charge lower prices for broadband when they face competition from fiber-to-the-home services. But an article yesterday by Stop the Cap provides a good example of how dramatically promotional prices for Charter's Spectrum Internet service can vary from one street to the next.
In this example, Charter charges $20 more per month for slower speeds on the street where it faces no serious competition. When customers in two areas purchase the same speeds, the customer on the street without competition could have to pay $40 more per month and would have their promotional rates expire after only one year instead of two.
Stop the Cap said it examined promotional offers to new customers in the metro Rochester, New York, market, "where Spectrum faces token competition from Frontier's slow speed DSL service" and more robust competition in limited areas from Greenlight Networks' fiber service. Greenlight fiber is available in 23 percent of Rochester, while Charter cable is available to homes throughout the city, according to BroadbandNow. Greenlight prices start at $50 per month for 500Mbps.
"Charter's offers are address-sensitive," Stop the Cap founder Phillip Dampier wrote. "The cable company knows its competition and almost exactly where those competitors offer service. That is why the company asks for your service address before it quotes you pricing."
Am I the only one that's appalled at the Upload speeds? From the linked BroadbandNow page for Spectrum: Speeds up to:1,000 Mbps Download, 35 Mbps Upload
Previously:
Charter Must Pay $19 Million for Tricking Customers Into Switching ISPs
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @05:05PM (8 children)
... who keep saying that a private company can arbitrarily suspend service to anyone they don't like?
If it's OK for Twitter or Facebook to not provide service for any reason, then the same rule should be applied to Charter. And, of course, they aren't withholding service, which makes this even less evil than what Twitter/Facebook/etc are doing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @06:21PM (1 child)
That's primarily a Libertarian argument, though I guess I have to admit that compared to the fascist Republican Party and not-quite-yet-fascist Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party are leftists.
Yeah the DNC has a nationalist socialist org called DSA that Socialist Alternative for what ever reason is attempting to enter, but they just can't seem to find the congressional road to socialism. So they kind of herp and derp around and can't seem to even pull the DNC a little to the left. They just make leftist noises without leftist action. In general, any time you mix nationalism with socialism, you get right-wing horror.
Any time I say that about the DNC I feel I need a disclaimer: the Republican Party is ahead of the Democratic Party 1-0 if you're measuring fascist coup attempts, and I hear from the Republicans that now they want to try again in July, but this time they actually want to install a military dictatorship. The DNC will attempt to appease the military dictatorship and then get shown by real Nazis how to national socialist, including political purges, and what happens to those who attempt to appease Nazis.
If you want left-leaning capitalism, you gotta go Libertarian. Though of course the Libertarian Party is as incapable of stopping Republican Nazis as Mises was back in the day.
The international working class will show you what leftism is... or else 5 billion people will be dead by the end of the Year of Hell after the nukes fly
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @05:39AM
Nukes aren't going to fly - they're a relic from the days of Big Ideas aka commies vs the gratest nation on earth.
Both sides are now in the same game of screwing over the working schmuck. No bombs required, only a police state and more and more rules (for you).
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Saturday June 05 2021, @06:33PM (4 children)
You’re not dumb enough to fail at grasping the inequity of the two scenarios. If you want a rematch to a previous debate just log in and say so.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @05:40AM (3 children)
> arbitrarily
define please.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday June 06 2021, @06:04AM
define please.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @02:10PM (1 child)
Just one recent example:
Twitter locked the account of a group that was posting Anthony Fauchi's emails. There was no doubt that the emails were legit, and there was no doubt that they were obtained in a legal manner (Freedom of Information Act).
Twitter banned them for simply commenting that they had posted the emails to their own web site. Twitter claimed they were stopping "misinformation".
That's what I call "arbitrarily".
http://inlandnwreport.com/2021/06/03/ican-banned-and-new-emails-make-fauci-look-like-a-fraud/ [inlandnwreport.com]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday June 06 2021, @04:54PM
Heh. Knew you couldn’t. 🤡
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @09:52PM
They still complain about it. But after being on the receiving end for so long, they are enjoying the schadenfreude of watching the leopards turning on their voters and eating Republican faces.