[bradknowles]

I also got the t-shirt from Google, when they announced they were coming to Austin. I don't remember which year that was. Google did come to a couple of neighborhoods, but that's it.

And while that spurred the AT&T fiber sales critters to come out of the woodwork, that didn't inspire much in the way of actual fiber investment from AT&T.

The sales critters came to our neighborhood several times, but ultimately stopped. I think I may have had some influence there, because I kept asking them if they could actually deliver fiber to our house, and they kept failing to be able to answer the question. I kept showing them the AT&T website on my iPad and to show me where they could actually provide service, and they just walked away.

Still no AT&T fiber here.

But Spectrum was happy to walk around the neighborhood recently, offering their same sub-1Gbps cable modem service that they've had for years and years.

Sadly, when Time Warner Cable was here, they could do symmetric 1Gbps connections, at least if you signed up for business class service. Not so much with Spectrum. They can give you 1Gbps down, but nowhere near that for upstream -- not even with business class.

Sigh....

[yeukhon]

Fwiw, TW was acquired by Spectrum several years ago. The acquisition did not help customers. I am in a lucky boat. Verizon took many years to break ground in many neighborhoods in NYC and neaby counties, after fought monopolies (which they are themselves ironically). But generally only Verizon is the reliable one here

[bradknowles]

Huh. I didn't realize Spectrum bought TW. I thought TW had exited the market and Spectrum was awarded a new monopoly contract.

Sigh....

They bought out TW and then proceeded to make the service even worse.