Fibre cost.

John from PA wrote in post #18828228
The package I actually have is Cable TV, telephone and internet for slightly less than $100/month.

Why is it that providers push telephone service in their plans, with so many people having cell phones?

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18828977
Why is it that providers push telephone service in their plans, with so many people having cell phones?

Bigger bundle more money for them.

Bcaps wrote in post #18828952
I recently got AT&T symmetric unlimited gigabit service for $80/month, which was cheaper than my much slower and 1TB/month capped Comcast. The call to cancel Comcast was one of the most enjoyable calls I have ever had.

Wish we had ATT fiber on our side.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18828977
Why is it that providers push telephone service in their plans, with so many people having cell phones?

Zero additional cost to them, but something they can bill you for in the bundle.

bobbyz wrote in post #18829276
Wish we had ATT fiber on our side.

Not sure which side you are on, but they do have fiber in a number of East Bay areas (Fremont, Newark, Hayward, Oakland, San Leandro, El Cerrito, San Ramon, Union City, Dublin, and Livermore). Sonic.net also offers fiber in some ares.

bobbyz wrote in post #18828353
I would if I had the option and gladly pay $100/month for 1GbE link. Also depends on where you live. Problem here in US is ISPs are big monopolies and consumer doesn't have much options. At least in bigger areas you can get something. Good luck if you live in smaller places.

I live in the middle of nowhere, my town is getting 1G fiber right now, my house is very isolated power ends at the end of my lot, being able to get fast internet
was kind of a surprise when they announced it. It will be $60 a month for 1Gb or $25 for 25Mb, no data cap.

Yes fiber is starting to come but still not in my area in Dublin. Only had measly 24Mbps from AT&T which would drop to 2-3Mbps at night time. So switched to Comcast 150Mbps as I had no other option.

bobbyz wrote in post #18829853
Yes fiber is starting to come but still not in my area in Dublin. Only had measly 24Mbps from AT&T which would drop to 2-3Mbps at night time. So switched to Comcast 150Mbps as I had no other option.

Yeah, I think that with the large conglomerate ISP's that we are forced to live with it is always going to be a "grass is greener on the other side" kind of thing. One good thing about Comcast is that you can bring your own modem/gateway and not have to pay a monthly rental fee. That isn't an option with the ATT Gigabit service (even though they don't acutally break out a separate monthly fee I'm sure it's rolled into the monthly price). I don't even use their gateway as I am using a workaround so that I can use my own router.

I couldn't complain about my Comcast download speeds (300 Mbps) but the uploads were horrendous at 10Mbps. What used to take me 6 weeks to backup to Backblaze I can now do in one day. Crazy. My Comcast cost was also scheduled to go up to $120/month for the 300/10 service and even though I had already switched to ATT, just for poops and giggles when I called to cancel I acted like I was just calling to see if they could do anything with the price. They told me they couldn't help with the price unless I also signed up for their TV/Phone service. So it felt *so* good to just tell them, "Never mind, just cancel". All of a sudden they wanted to work on the price So I asked them if they could match ATT and give me 1 Gbps up and down, unlimited, for $80/month. The guy was quiet for second and then in really quiet voice just said, "No". Good times.

I take a different approach. I don't have a high speed internet provider. I use my 4G phone as a mobile hot spot for internet access. For $60/month I get unlimited data. Websites load fast and uploading images to photo hosting sites is pretty quick. Watching movies on my laptop works well.

But I'm not a sports fan and not much of a tv or movie watcher. OTA tv is fine for me. Ocassionaly I'll rent a movie dvd from Redbox.

When I tell people that I don't have cable or high speed internet they think I'm nuts!

BT is horrendously expensive, you really MUST shop around, there are many to choose from.

As an example
BT SUPERFAST FIBRE 2 is £58.99 a month
Vodafone Superfast 2 £27 a month


I will also say that after over 20 years with several ISPs and a very unstable connection (dropped connections), it took vodafone under 9 months to find the problem and get me a new cable from street cabinet to my home that is dedicate to me alone, no dropped connections for 116 days, 10 hours and 57 minutes ( I had a power-cut so the router rebooted)

Bcaps wrote in post #18830042
Yeah, I think that with the large conglomerate ISP's that we are forced to live with it is always going to be a "grass is greener on the other side" kind of thing. One good thing about Comcast is that you can bring your own modem/gateway and not have to pay a monthly rental fee. That isn't an option with the ATT Gigabit service (even though they don't acutally break out a separate monthly fee I'm sure it's rolled into the monthly price). I don't even use their gateway as I am using a workaround so that I can use my own router.

I couldn't complain about my Comcast download speeds (300 Mbps) but the uploads were horrendous at 10Mbps. What used to take me 6 weeks to backup to Backblaze I can now do in one day. Crazy. My Comcast cost was also scheduled to go up to $120/month for the 300/10 service and even though I had already switched to ATT, just for poops and giggles when I called to cancel I acted like I was just calling to see if they could do anything with the price. They told me they couldn't help with the price unless I also signed up for their TV/Phone service. So it felt *so* good to just tell them, "Never mind, just cancel". All of a sudden they wanted to work on the price So I asked them if they could match ATT and give me 1 Gbps up and down, unlimited, for $80/month. The guy was quiet for second and then in really quiet voice just said, "No". Good times.

The 1GbE up/down is real nice, just not many apps to justify it for most folks. I do need to get my own model so I don't pay comcast their $11 monthly fee.