[quote=poorgradstudent]
Mostly I’m just worried that as more and more millenials cut the cord for cable TV and only use cable internet, the cable companies will try to make up their revenue by raising rates. I don’t like being in a position where one company can more or less change me whatever they want because I “need” their service and there’s no other decent option.[/quote]
It’s not only the lost revenue it’s the increased cost of having infrastructure that handle that bandwidth load. The internet providers can only advertise these high speeds and unlimited usage because only a few people at a time use that speed and require that amount of usage. If a material percentage of people all tried to use that bandwidth at the same time the backend infrastructure wouldn’t be able to handle it.
With net neutrality my guess is that we are going to end up with metered connections. I.e. you might get some base usage for some relatively modest fee but if you’re going to be streaming a bunch of 4K content you’re going to be paying at least a couple hundred dollars per month.
Bottom line cord cutters that think they are getting a great deal for $10 netflix plus $50 internet are not going to be liking things as much in the future.
[quote=AN]Time Warner is deploying TWC Maxx next month, which is their 300Mbps service.
I hope Google get this done quickly. Competition is great and my house is already pre-wired for fiber, so it shouldn’t cost them very much to turn it on.[/quote]
TWC maxx is 300down, only 20up. Fiber is more symmetrical, like 100/100, 200/200. Big difference for some.
[quote=equalizer][quote=AN]Time Warner is deploying TWC Maxx next month, which is their 300Mbps service.
I hope Google get this done quickly. Competition is great and my house is already pre-wired for fiber, so it shouldn’t cost them very much to turn it on.[/quote]
TWC maxx is 300down, only 20up. Fiber is more symmetrical, like 100/100, 200/200. Big difference for some.[/quote]Oh, I’m totally aware of the difference. However, TWC Maxx is coming next month while who knows when Google Fiber will come. Of course, when Google Fiber comes, I’d definitely switch, unless TWC offer their 300mbps service for 1/2 the price of Google Fiber. Maybe AT&T will offer fiber for SD too, since they seem to be going to every city that Google goes to w/ their Fiber.
The cities with fiber have one thing in common. Low cost real estate, low labor and/or easy terrain. Verizon stopped fiber expansion because it was costing $1500 per house when it started and then came down to $750 per house! The wireless business is much more profitable so they gave up on FTTH.
Following that premise, Louisville, KY, and Phoenix are next. Maybe San Jose because of tech inbreeding.
Only way fiber comes to high cost coastal cities is if they can charge a premium and pay city monopoly fees (like the cable companies today), which I don’t think is feasible anymore for general areas. It would work in Carmel Valley, etc, but politics would force fiber company to offer every place in the city, which would make it unworkable.
What is ridiculous is that new homes built after 2000 didn’t have options for fiber connections and purple water lines to each home.
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