In my part of the country is there little competition for my business; one either goes with AT&T or Time Warner. The result is like that of early 70's Detroit when auto manufacturers settled into complacency building over-priced products of inferior quality, a mindset they have had trouble emerging from. In fact, AT&T has not upgraded the local switch so as to offer dsl in my neighborhood (thus my ONLY choice for broadband was Time Warner). I pay nearly $50 a month for the lowest connection speed offered by TW and I can only justify the expense by using VOIP for tel service (not TW's which is over-priced). AT&T has reestablished largely themselves as a monopoly again but it is over a shrinking and changing market that they have not figured out how to exploit at previous levels. Neither company has bothered with providing any innovative services or taken measures to deliver more for less.
Hopefully, changes will occur during the next, Democratic administration. I think it is more likely we see more of an unfettered free-market exchange of services.
America is the backwater of technology. Their cell network is an absolute joke compared even to countries like Thailand and now they are going to try to put up a censored web? People in America need to wake up and get tech out of the hands of idiot corporations and old hacks in Washington before they run us into the stone age.
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In my part of the country is there little competition for my business; one either goes with AT&T or Time Warner. The result is like that of early 70's Detroit when auto manufacturers settled into complacency building over-priced products of inferior quality, a mindset they have had trouble emerging from. In fact, AT&T has not upgraded the local switch so as to offer dsl in my neighborhood (thus my ONLY choice for broadband was Time Warner). I pay nearly $50 a month for the lowest connection speed offered by TW and I can only justify the expense by using VOIP for tel service (not TW's which is over-priced). AT&T has reestablished largely themselves as a monopoly again but it is over a shrinking and changing market that they have not figured out how to exploit at previous levels. Neither company has bothered with providing any innovative services or taken measures to deliver more for less.
Hopefully, changes will occur during the next, Democratic administration. I think it is more likely we see more of an unfettered free-market exchange of services.
America is the backwater of technology. Their cell network is an absolute joke compared even to countries like Thailand and now they are going to try to put up a censored web? People in America need to wake up and get tech out of the hands of idiot corporations and old hacks in Washington before they run us into the stone age.
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