[Discuss] Howdy

[Kyle Leslie]

My friends father works for Verizon and according to him (The verizon
employee), many of the cities signed a contract with Comcast so they would
be the only provider of "Broadband" internet or something to that affect.
Many of those contracts are going to be ending soon.  I Know Milton and
Quincy both fall under that umbrella.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>
> > I live in Newton where we have Vz (FIOS), Comcast, and RCN. In general my
> > Comcast service has been excellent with any outage not their fault.
>
>
> The difference is that you live in a town where there is actually some
> competition in the broadband market, so the companies *have* to provide
> good service in order to retain customers.
>
> Most towns give a monopoly to one broadband provider, who then has
> no incentive to give adequate service.
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