I checked Comcast and they want $84.99/month for 25Mbps, which our neighbors tell us is a total fraud. Verizon DSL told me they have no intention of upgrading my area so we will not get any higher DSL speeds. I asked about FIOS as they just put in all the equipment and fiber two homes from mine at the intersection of our cul de sac and the Verizon FIOS people said that even though the equipment is there they will not let the ten homes on our street have FIOS.
We are literally stuck with two companies that will not service us at all and yet we live in the Washington DC area.
Start contributing to the local Democrat party. I suspect you’d see that problem fixed pretty quick.
That’s incredible. Here we have at least three companies that do the “last mile” connection to your home, plus dozens that use at least part of those networks, either as resellers or “hybrids”. My ISP is a hybrid that maintains its own network but uses the major telcos (Bell and Rogers) for the connection to the home. IMO this happy state of affairs is due to the fact that ISPs are not regulated anywhere near as heavily as the telcos.