AT&T Drops Gigapower Prices in Raleigh

TWC is about to go maxx market in Ral and CLT are in NC to keep up. Can't wait till it comes to Greensboro area..
 
Wow, competition lowers prices, amazing.

I'm beginning to think that then only solution is to force competition.

If there's no competition (i.e. the ISP basically has a monopoly) then they should have to deal with excessive government regulations including price controls. (and DSL at 384kb doesn't count as competition).
 
I believe this is the first time I've ever seen a broadband ISP actually reduce their price.
 
Wow, AT&T lowers prices? That is amazing! :)

Wish Gigapower would hurry up and come to Houston!
 
Competition doesn't lower prices, never lowers prices!! Only the wise and benevolent overlords of government can do that. :mad:
 
We just got the ATT Gigapower stuff in the mail here in KC

price is about the same, $70 for 1Gbit service.

BUT ... talked to a Google engineer and was told they might increase the speed here in Kansas City but that it would largely be a marketing for new customers
 
nutzo said:
Wow, competition lowers prices, amazing.

I'm beginning to think that then only solution is to force competition.

If there's no competition (i.e. the ISP basically has a monopoly) then they should have to deal with excessive government regulations including price controls. (and DSL at 384kb doesn't count as competition).
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SOCIALISM! [/sarcasm]

But seriously, I've always felt that government should make the backbone, and ISPs should only handle the business aspect. No reason for every company to wire up it's own infrastructure; that's just wasteful and kill competition. You need to be a company of Googles size to be able to afford this kind of venture.
 
nutzo said:
Wow, competition lowers prices, amazing.

I'm beginning to think that then only solution is to force competition.

If there's no competition (i.e. the ISP basically has a monopoly) then they should have to deal with excessive government regulations including price controls. (and DSL at 384kb doesn't count as competition).
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Well the problem is that wouldn't have an impact on the vast majority of the country where people are getting gouged anyway. Reason being the big ISPs essentially have oligopolies. So even though Verizon and Comcast are technically "competing" if they've both come to arrangements to keep their prices within a certain range, they can charge a lot more than if they had real competition like Google Fiber.
 
From the same people who spent hundreds of millions, or possibly billions, trying to convince people that competition would just harm the market.
 
Tyler-Durden said:
Competition doesn't lower prices, never lowers prices!! Only the wise and benevolent overlords of government can do that. :mad:
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That or the occasional quadrillionaire corporation can. Of which there appears to be only one.
 
SixFootDuo said:
We just got the ATT Gigapower stuff in the mail here in KC

price is about the same, $70 for 1Gbit service.

BUT ... talked to a Google engineer and was told they might increase the speed here in Kansas City but that it would largely be a marketing for new customers
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Increase the speed? To what exactly? Its already 1 gigabit. That's almost a soft cap for the time being until consumer level hardware catches up. You can get 10 gigabit speeds and even faster, but that is for server and business use.

There is almost zero incentive to raise the speed until motherboards start shipping with 10GbE ports or the adapters start becoming extremely cheap and readily accessible. What they should do is lower the price or offer lower tiers like 100Mb for $25 or something like that.
 
"I'm sorry $80/month for 20 / 5 is the best we can do" "Its too cost prohibitive or unprofitable to upgrade the network"
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"Oh what? Google is in the area and offers 1gig down for $50? Well look at that, we can do 1 gig down for $50." :rolleyes: Because Oligopolies are super cool.
 
Meanwhile, there's a non-active VRAD 2 blocks from me, but AT&T doesn't want to do anything with it because Net Neutrality... but hey they'll happily let me order their fantastic DSL services from a distance of over 8000 feet from the CO!
 
We wouldn't even need Net Neutrality rules if we had some real competition on the ISPs.
I am sure FCC knows this, I don't get why competition is not forced-in the market.
I mean its corruption of course, but at what point someone in power says, enough, we need to evolve the internet further (and other companies will grow as a consequence) with the internet of things, and cloud computing, more and better ISPs is what we need.
 
BTW the ATT asses raised my price (Same service) after a short-lived wireless broadband service went under. My area has been updated to fiber up to the boxes on the street (I actually have one really close, that uverse stuff) also my power company runs backbone fiber to big business (I have a terminal close by too, so do 1000s of houses here of course)
So really, would it be that hard to put some competition in the market? Of course not. Yet I am stuck with one cable company or ATT for internet, and I count myself luck, because I could be down to one service.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
Increase the speed? To what exactly? Its already 1 gigabit. That's almost a soft cap for the time being until consumer level hardware catches up. You can get 10 gigabit speeds and even faster, but that is for server and business use.

There is almost zero incentive to raise the speed until motherboards start shipping with 10GbE ports or the adapters start becoming extremely cheap and readily accessible. What they should do is lower the price or offer lower tiers like 100Mb for $25 or something like that.
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Yeah, I'm on Google Fiber, and steam downloads are faster than my poor hard drive (an old 1.5TB) can handle. It makes those 7 GB downloads actually take a few minutes.
 
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