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And here in SF we have like 55%? Been waiting for it for 10 years in my hood.
I guess we need to burn more stuff on the streets? It worked for the French.
And here is my house, I pay $300 just to get 300 mbit downspeed and 10mb upload speed. can government STOP this fucking spectrum(Charter Communications) monopoly.
You have more problems than just the monopoly. Like the FCC, among other federal agencies, being completely captured by big business.
Quebec has high-speed internet available to all residents. Either fibre to the home, or subsidized StarLink. Canada as a whole is expected to have 90% high speed internet by the end of 2026, and 100% by 2030.
You can get 8 Gigabit symmetric home internet from Bell but not IPv6.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's pretty wild that parts of the Houston metro have a better ISP story than SF. The last home I was in had multiple competing fiber providers available. My current home is in the middle of the woods and I have a 5gbps symmetric link.
For a new build or overhead wiring, it's a trivial cost that is easily recouped. For buried infrastructure where the coaxial cable company already sells internet, you will almost never recoup your investment to bury new fiber and run it to all the homes. You can have the superior product, but insufficient people will pay enough more than the existing coaxial cable prices.
As a result, many rural areas have way better internet than big cities.
And here in SF we have like 55%? Been waiting for it for 10 years in my hood.
Why haven't you run your own fiber from your house to the nearest carrier hotel? I'm not expecting you to do that, but I want to trigger some discussion on what are the exact reasons we all don't do that.
I work from home 1 or 2 days a week. My current bandwidth is more than sufficient for my personal usage. And I exclusively use Wifi, other than a TV and a Nintendo Switch that happen to be right next to the router so are plugged in. So even if I had fiber, I literally wouldn't know a difference because my wifi would be the bottleneck still.
Back when Google Fiber was rolling in, no one I knew was looking forward to it because they had need for the increased bandwidth. They looked forward to it because the expectation of a 'Google' branded product was better than the expectation of a 'Comcast' branded product. It was more about the expected uptime and consistency.
Meanwhile, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gi...
Reminder that US taxpayer money was handed to the ISPs by the truckload on the promise of fiber. They took that infrastructure money and ran with it.
Canada also has pretty fiber coverage in urban areas but only for a single provider, Bell Canada, and its legislatively allowed resellers like TekSavvy. It is really fast and reliable. You can get symmetric 8Gbps for around $100/month USD ($140/month CAD.)
Unfortunately I haven't heard much about build-out since Bell bought the company that was laying all that fiber (Start.ca) I had to move to a place that didn't have fiber but by all means should be getting it Real Soon Now (urban, surrounded by fiber build-out, on an arterial) but I'm basically accepting that I'll be doomed to DOCSIS for the foreseeable future.
Canada also has pretty fiber coverage in urban areas but only for a single provider, Bell Canada, and its legislatively allowed resellers like TekSavvy. It is really fast and reliable. You can get symmetric 8Gbps for around $100/month USD ($140/month CAD.)
Never mind that the sharing rules are harshly tilted in Bell's favor. They charge Teksavvy ~$80 a month for that access, but then will sell it directly to consumers for $50/month under their house discount brands like Ebox and Distributel.