Literally the only thing available is Comcast. How is that even legal? You'd think there'd be some monopoly law for this cause there's no way Verizon FIOS wouldn't want to operate in the major city in question while Comcast monopolizes it.
In my town there Charter, and they suck. Comcast were assholes, but the service was always good last town I lived in with them and cable TV was modern hardware and cloud HD streaming. Charter still uses old hardware, have to pay per box, extra for HD boxes still, streaming is limited and often in standard def still. Their internet was terrible, constantly to throttled during busy hours, but the only cable internet in town as is the norm.
The shitty thing is the city spend a ton of taxpayer money upgrading the comms infrastructure, including new cable lines for Spectrum internet. So, a monopoly and the city paid for installing more cable infrastructure for Spectrum to "lease" but internet still sucked.
Then, they upgraded all the conduits with fiber, but weren't allowed to let any company use it. Spectrum had some exclusive access and declined to "lease" the fiber, so was just unused.
Finally a fiber internet company very slowly installed their own lines on power lines and I got fiber and it's great. But the city spent millions of tax payer money installing underground fiber they weren't allowed to use because the local government and Spectrum have some exclusive deal were they grease each other's palms.
Fiber is so awesome I got rid of my Xbox series x external storage because it's just as fast downloading games as transferring them to the internal drive. 900/800 most days for the same price as Spectrum's 200/10 that they would throttle all the time.
And it's absurd because we could all have fiber internet except that most regions have weird greasy palm deals between government and corporations, and if you get a lazy one like Spectrum they hold back progress and have no incentive to innovate or improve their product (every old person I know pays around $250 for shitty Spectrum tv and internet without a second thought).
There was a push for legislation to open up competition for cable companies, but it was shot down because these giant corporations have a ton of lobbying power and in some cases own the news that can sink politicians.
Shits fucked, like so many things these days.
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