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Originally Posted by trevesty
Before that, in this area, there were 2 choices for 20 years.
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Respectfully...20 years ago would have been 1997 when cable first began rolling out fast internet.
That means your friend would have had dial up choices for ISP.
Earthlink, AOL, Mindspring, and dozens more.
I get what you are trying to say...but it wasn't for "20 years". Maybe he had only 2 choices for high-speed internet over the last 15 to 16 years?
I lived from 1998 to 2007 in tiny Greer, S.C. and I was in the online adult biz since 1996.
We were paying $1,200 a month for a T-1 line at our office in 1999 and were so happy to be able to get 1.5MB up and down.
Your friend COULD have done that as well. SDSL hit a few months later in our little town...we snapped that up and started getting 7MB up and down and thought we were in heaven! (with AL4A and AMPLAND as well as several paysites we owned back in those days we needed all the speed we could get)
Anyway, here are the actual numbers of people who don't have HIGH SPEED choices in the U.S.:
"More than 10.6 million US households have no access to wired Internet service with download speeds of at least 25Mbps, and an additional 46.1 million households live in areas with just one provider offering those speeds, a new analysis has found. That adds up to more than 56 million households lacking any high-speed broadband choice over wired connections. Even when counting access to fixed wireless connections, there are still nearly 50 million households with one 25Mbps provider or none at all."
Note that 25Mbps is the bar that this report is setting for "high speed broadband".
I'm guessing a lot of those people are in remote areas and have to use satellite.
I'm also going to say that 25Mbps is still pretty damn fast. I'm guessing faster than Rochard's free service that he uses.
When I check into hotel rooms they are capped at anywhere from 3 to 10 Mbps download.
So that would mean that hotels don't have "high-speed" broadband either. lol
Anyway...the reality is...the vast majority of places in the U.S. have had multiple ISP choices for broadband internet since at LEAST the mid 2000's.
Most people just use their cable company and "bundle" it with their t.v.
Which ALWAYS means that you can cut cable and go to Direct TV or DISH TV and use their slightly slower internet
DISH, for instance is 12 MB Not too bad.
So anyone on here claiming that anyone in the country only has ONE choice is just wrong. They ALWAYS have DISH, Direct TV, and even using their 4G connection with their phone as a "hotspot" (which is what I do at hotels). And in any area of the country that is not remote...that means they have cable, 2 satellite choices, and smart phone wifi choices at the bare minimum.