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FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What competition?

Isnt there like..only two cities in the whole country where cable companies actually have to compete with each other? (and consequently the customers see the lowest prices in the country.. weird how that works?)

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    The proliferation of home cell internet and Starlink's internet has had a nice downward pressure in many markets. Both are often surprisingly good, even for heavy internet users. They are something worth checking out in your area.

    Edit: Note, if you look into satellite internet, Starlink is pretty much the only one that doesn't suck. This is due to the satellites being in low earth orbit (fairly close) rather than way, way off in geostationary orbit.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Starlink is the disposable plastic of internet though. they are constantly losing satalites due to that low earth orbit, which are constantly being replaced.

    also being owned by a raging right wing fucktard that turns them off and on to suit his political whims does nothing to endear me to the service

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    most people dont really care about the political ideology of the person who leads the company

    Do people know the political views of most company heads? Difficult to say if people care if they don't know. If those political views clearly harm you (e.g. anti-gay sentiment in 2010's) then most of those affected would care?

    We can ignore politics but politics won't ignore us, probably we aught to care what business do with the money we give them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Most people don't know about the politics of company heads, cause they are at least smart enough to shut the fuck up about it in public.

    Unlike Musk, who tweets like an edgy teenager and is constantly putting the white hood on.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    The former is more of a technical one. LEO has (some) air drag, so anything there is temporary; and you need them in LEO to not have pings measured in seconds. But, as you stated, the CEO is......fucktarded. I'll fully agree there!

    But, more importantly, that's why I also mentioned cell networks. In the US, TMobile and Verizon home cell internet is competitive in quite a good percent of the country and worth looking into if you don't like your current provider. TMobile's is $50/mo, for example.

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