How much do YOU pay for Broadband?

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NS

by pkscout May 9, 2006 3:37AM PDT

I'm paying $32.70 a month from Verizon. It's $37.95 a month plus $2.75 a month FUSF recovery fee MINUS $8 a month discount for a one year commitment.

That gives me 3Mbps down and 768Kpbs up.

It's really sad that in Japan and many European countries that price would get me 100Mbps connection.

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Europe Broadband Rocks

by Chris_Fon May 9, 2006 5:09AM PDT

In Sweden, you can get 100Mbps broadband for pennies (not literally)

Sadly in the UK, you can get up to 24Mbps broadband for about

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It pains me

by eugenep01 May 9, 2006 3:18PM PDT

My horrendous service provider is NTC Communications, I pay around $45.00 a month for broadband (which is supplied through a direct Ethernet port in my apartment). It would be more if I didn?t get a bundle of phone, cable, and broadband service.

Speed has been dropped from 3.xMbps in August to 1.2Mbps, upload dropped from 2.54Mbps to ~700Kbps. I am also plagued with multipe outages a week, anywhere from a minute or two, to several hours.
*Apartment complexes in my area get a 12% commission from NTC to make them the only ISP available outside of dial-up.

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Ooof - CRTC = High Prices

by boringcom May 9, 2006 11:25PM PDT

Thanks for the feedback folks.

I guess I'm getting the shaft in a major way - though I won't complain about outages and throughput usually matches the service they claim to provide for the price.

Looks like I'm pay close to 2x the U.S. price though. Okay, maybe 1.8. Still, the Canadian Radio and Television Communication folks are not helping me out by putting any pressure on these near monopolies.

So much for a free market driving down market prices, though I guess if I'm willing to pay they're going to charge at that level... Sigh.

- Micah

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Its a thin line...

by ddubb May 19, 2006 12:40AM PDT

...between "monopoly" and "near monopoly", isn't it? Really all you need is one other choice. I don't think its the CRTC's job to drive down prices, is it? How can you say, "so much for free market forces driving down prices" and with no more than a comma in between then say "I guess if I'm willing to pay they're going to charge at that level".

I think a complete definition of "free market" would include something about companies charging no more and no less than what the market will bear. Somewhere in Canada there are people who refuse to subscribe to broadband until the price becomes more reasonable. Now who's to blame for keeping prices high? Every customer who rewards the free market forces for charging so much.

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(NT) (NT) who is your provided?

by rosscbrown May 10, 2006 12:07AM PDT

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Im gonna assume you mean provider

by Chris_Fon May 12, 2006 11:46PM PDT

My ISP is Wanadoo

4 DAYS TILL 8Meg ADSL!!!!!

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(NT) (NT) oh ok

by rosscbrown May 14, 2006 11:08PM PDT

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How are lower prices possible?

by ddubb May 18, 2006 7:20PM PDT

I live in the city limits of Madison, WI, the state's capitol. I have satellite tv service so my broadband is dsl. But the old copper wires allow no more than about 550 kbps down and 250 up. Packaged with unused barebones residential phone service (I don't even own a telephone) my bill is about $22/mo.

How did europeans upgrade and how do they get higher level service for so cheap? If their pipeline was at all subsidized by tax revenues then I'd rather have lower taxes and have internet improvements be paid for by internet consumers.

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??

by Chris_Fon May 26, 2006 9:59PM PDT

I honestly dunno how we get such fast bband if thats the spec for copper wires. All I know is that the most prominent bband in the UK is ADSL and they can currently get up to 8meg by this method. DSL services in the UK come from as little as

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Prices In South Korea

by jagacbe May 10, 2006 12:36AM PDT

I don't know the exact specs for the VDSL, but I konw it's fast as heck and it's about $49.00US and the regular cable modem is about $22 and ADSL is about $33

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Fiber in Utah

by adkinsjm May 10, 2006 4:15AM PDT

$40/month for 10mb down/up. No bandwidth caps.

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Too much for too little

by punterjoe May 10, 2006 8:58AM PDT

I have Verizon DSL in a very old house in a very old city. The junction box in my basement is cloth-clad copper & thumbscrews! I pay about $80 to verizon for DSL/phone bundle. My throughput varies drastically - I'm guessing, since I don't keep an always-on connection, it can be anywhere from 1.8Mpbs dn/300k up to nearly too slow to measure - CNET's bandwidth meter once clocked it at 2300Bps - other times it just times out. I'm guessing most of the hardware between my DSL modem & the C.O. about 2mi away is probably over 75yrs old. Heck, when I moved to town in the 80s I had to 'special order' touchtone svc! Still, I refuse to deal with the cable co (old grudge/long story). If someone comes up with a better way to get broadband, I'll be quite receptive.

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My DSL Connection

by AndyInTN May 10, 2006 1:00PM PDT

Price:

$65 month

Speed:

I ran this from an online speed test service, the numbers are usually about the same, sometimes varying by a few bits.

Download Speed: 1018 kbps (127.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 279 kbps (34.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Unfortunately where I live we can't get cable connections or cable tv for that matter.

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comcast $60

by decjr May 10, 2006 1:12PM PDT

$60 provided by Comcast Cable in Fremont, CA; according to the speed test from www.dslreports.com:

4036 / 266
Your download speed : 4036 kbps or 504.5 KB/sec.
That is 19.6% worse than an average user on comcast.net
Your upload speed : 266 kbps or 33.3 KB/sec.
That is 33.8% worse than an average user on comcast.net

turtle-ing in fremont,
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