Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoCable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer"discuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1512arrow-down1imageCable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer"discuss.tchncs.deAlph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBudgieMania@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·8 months agoa threat that doesn’t pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.
minus-squareIm_old@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoFor what I understand, a lot of places in US have only a single provider available, so no competition. And when towns try to run their own broadband infrastructure they get sued by Internet companies.
minus-squareBudgieMania@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agobroadband? Isn’t this specifically about cable TV, not Internet communication?
minus-squareNum10ck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoluckily theres also 5G wireless home internet and starlink, usually also telecom land options as well.
minus-squareafunkysongaday@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoYet another problem the free market will surely solve aaaaany minute now.
a threat that doesn’t pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.
For what I understand, a lot of places in US have only a single provider available, so no competition. And when towns try to run their own broadband infrastructure they get sued by Internet companies.
broadband? Isn’t this specifically about cable TV, not Internet communication?
luckily theres also 5G wireless home internet and starlink, usually also telecom land options as well.
Yet another problem the free market will surely solve aaaaany minute now.