[micah_chatt]

A year ago I moved from Chattanooga, TN (mentioned in the article) to Bellevue, Wa to work in “Cloud City” Seattle to take a job at AWS. It used to cost me a total $59/mo for 100MB fiber up and down, no contract, with _amazing_ customer service (I seriously have stories to tell about how great EPB is).

My only real option at my new residence is Comcast at $79/mo which went up to $94/mo after 1 year for a hypothetical 100down/5up, with frequent network drops.

It was quite disappointing to find zero options for fiber, and this convinces me that this kind of corruption by ISPs and legislators needs to be severely curbed.

[m463]

I had a friend who worked for a cable company (several decades ago). He would tell me that for cable customers, frequently the cost of infrastructure was recovered during the install, if not within the first month or two.

When you look at the gross profit margin for ISPs and cellphone companies, it is frequently > 60%

Being the only game in town really has some tangible benefits.