Best phone call I've made in the past few years was canceling my ~$100 Comcast internet plan in favor of my municipality's $50 gigabit plan. A year in and haven't had so much as a hiccup in service.
Same. I’d rather pay $300/month for municipal if it supports efforts to also make it available to my other neighbors, makes the program more successful (and thus more likely to continue) and I’d set up my own equipment volunteer to help them install.
Actually, I’m going right now to see if there are any municipal broadband efforts in my area that I could throw money at / help out with. Is there some good place to find out more about efforts in _____ area? Sadly, like many in the Bay Area, I live in an apartment with a Comcast community manager, so we’d likely be the very last to get off of Comcast unless some great wireless tech becomes viable (and even then, we’re not allowed to have any external antennas mounted outside of our units).
I have Comcast and I WFH and at least once per month I have a daytime outage of several hours. They're response is usually, "it'll be back up soon, goodbye."
I would pay MORE to have municipal internet if I didn't have to put up with Comcast anymore.
Assuming the connection is reliable, I'd pay double the price for half the speed if it meant I got to call Spectrum and tell them where to put their plan.
I'm switching to RCN this weekend because I just realized it's the same price as my current service except gigabit instead of my current 150 mbps plan. I'm not sure why I never looked into it before. Sadly it's not municipal, but it's still better than throwing money away on Comcast.
I moved to a new apartment and made the switch as well (Previously had comcast/verizon/cox/century link). RCN has been excellent in Chicago. $45/month for Gigabit internet and other BS charges. Customer service is also the best. I called them because they charged me an installation fee by accident and waived it immediately no questions asked. Can't honestly ask for any better than that.
Actually, I’m going right now to see if there are any municipal broadband efforts in my area that I could throw money at / help out with. Is there some good place to find out more about efforts in _____ area? Sadly, like many in the Bay Area, I live in an apartment with a Comcast community manager, so we’d likely be the very last to get off of Comcast unless some great wireless tech becomes viable (and even then, we’re not allowed to have any external antennas mounted outside of our units).