Bend over Comcast users

The FCC berating comcast for slowing down speed for high usage accounts, but now comcast just struck back...

I wonder how long till they stop advertising "unlimited internet"

Soon it'll be back to the old dial-up days:

Even the berating was a close one. The final tally was 3-2

Don't joke about dial up. I still have nightmares about it.

I know people that still use it.

It's sad... so sad.

My family doesn't have a lot of options, so they have to use it.

What about the regular Verizon service with direct TV?

I think that is DSL.

That's the point, not everyone has a choice and most times the choice is worse. Cable companies are set up worse than the phone companies are. They are big conglomerates with mini-monopolies. If Comcast had to compete with Time Warner, Cox, and Charter all at the same time you would not see crap like this and you would not have to pay extra for the NFL Network.

Exactly. I can;t understand the FCC. Somehow a merger between the two satellite TV providers would be a monopoly but a merger between the two satellite radio providers isn't. Although I suppose real competition would not matter because I have yet to hear anyone say anything good about any Call Phone company.

FiOS is fiber optic cable and it has to be laid to the premises--it doesn't just piggyback on existing copper wire. I would guess that you can't get it in your condo even though the rest of the town has it because your building has an exclusive contract, probably with Comcast? My father-in-law works for Verizon in Dallas with the group rolling out FiOS. I talked to him about it last weekend and he said that they are waiting for all of Comcast's many exclusive deals with apartments and condos to run out before they can do anything. Once that happens, it should be up to the tenants.