[–] tgoods44 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
The problem is that they aren't playing fair. They were actually paid with taxpayer dollars to facilitate speed we aren't seeing. They are gouging because of the arranged monopolies. So, to answer your question I'd like to see competition, and with that I know we'd see better internet regardless of which flavor of BS is being spoon fed to the public.
With residential ISPs... My ISP used to do a (marginally) better job than most. You would pay for speed, with a soft data cap. If you go over the cap by a significant amount (like 10 gigs or more), you'd see a warning on the first and second months. Third month, you're paying per gig of overage, or have the option to upgrade to a faster speed/more data.
I'm not sure if they still do it like that, because I no longer live in a house with 5 other people on Steam. But it's a whole lot better than the barbed penis you get if you are over by 1 kB on your cellphone data.
[–] Forgotmyfuckingpw 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Old guy here to say neither. But I'm on a $6/month plan with a phone that originally sold in 2007. Its odd, I spent my career in IT and just don't see the point of smartphone.
My wife has to have one for her work, but its phone/text only with all the rest over WiFi (we had her on an unlimited plan for a short while but it made no sense financially). Different generations and priorities...
[–] Clitorally_retarded 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Fuck that. Introduce honest competition and have it all for less money.
[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
5g is coming and that should provide the most coverage and almost landline speeds.
I'm almost positive that telcos want to screw us rather than do what is right.
If any country went fully municipal telcos would be fucked. People would just use VoIP. I call international with an app called Line and the quality is way better than landlines and it's free besides packets.
I think that a revolt is necessary!
[–] Donttazemebro 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
No caps on anything! Throttling possibly ok on mobile. Data caps = rationing. As far as I know there is enough physical space for all our data to flow freely and without loss of speed.
[–] SirSandvich ago
Throttled to 10 Gb/s and a data cap of 1000 Tb