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300 a month?! What a massive fucking ripoff.
Every single provider just sets completely arbitrary price-gouged rates. We need a public internet service to undercut these goons.
Actually there's even a simpler solution (although your idea doesn't conflict with it and both could be implemented).
What is needed to bring competition back is a law requiring that the last mile (the wire that is between your home and nearest PoP (Point of Presence) can be leased to competition (at reasonable price of course).
This is the primary reason why is it so hard to enter existing market. This is also the reason why we had so much competition in early 2000 with DSL (a phone line was used to which such law applies)
A growing number of towns and cities have done exactly this. It's partially responsible for pushing att and others to expand their true fiber networks. I'm in NC and we currently have by my count 5 companies offering ftth with 3 of them actively burying fiber and conduit all over town.
And $500 installation and $500 'activation' (just call it $1000 installation FFS).
And a 'modem fee'.
They'll probably add a few more fees on top for the hell of it if you query that..
Processing fee, I'm sure. It costs you more money for them to take your money.
Paperless billing fee. Online portal fee. Mobile app portal fee.
Fee'ing fee. You thought all these fees were free?
Meanwhile, here in London, 25GBP, ~30USD per month for symmetric 1Gbps, including router - https://communityfibre.co.uk/
If you say so... that's a pretty big tube.
The internet is not a big truck; it's a series of tubes!
It's fiber. Literally a strand of glass.
Wait... are you saying it's not a series of tubes?
Not really; in my market, $300 to Cox gets you a cable line with like a third of a gig down (theoretical) and like 20 megs up, business class. Compared to that absolute shit, it's amazing. If you don't get biz, you get a 1TB (or 750GB?) cap that you can lift for extra money but they can still decide that someone, anyone, in your area or neighborhood is using too much bandwidth, even if they pay the extra for unlimited, and throttle everyone.
https://help.orcon.net.nz/hc/article_attachments/18766789266585
Several ISPs in NZ will sell you 10G fibre (advertised as 8G) for that, if you're in urban areas with 100G handover links - otherwise, they'll only sell 4G plans due to the risk of congestion.
I believe 1000/500 is now the most common plan as the cost is barely more than the 300/100 plans
Write to the FCC asking them to unbundle the retail divisions of your ISPs from the wholesale and physical plant divisions. And regulate the fuck out of the pricing and services offered by the monopolistic wholesalers.