• Trebuchet@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    Americans, just so you know, your ISPs do not offer tremendous value, as claimed by USTelecom. If you could see what less than $30 per month gets you in the European Union, you would be furious. Seriously, please get out the guillotines

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      11 hours ago

      Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.

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      12 hours ago

      Part of our problem is sprawl…but in a metro there’s no excuse.

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      16 hours ago

      You can only squeeze every penny out of your population for so long before the majority don’t have any pennies left… With more and more people in the US living paycheck to paycheck and the increase of credit card debt on the raise… We are nearing that point… Trump will probably send this country into the biggest recession in history but it will be ok because they won’t call it one like the last time he was president…

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      15 hours ago

      While living in Spain I had access to better and cheaper internet through my mobile phone.

      Now I’m back I’m Canada and I could cry. Rogers asks 40$ for 15GB of slow as ass interwebs.