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I'm in the Philippines and I pay $200 for 10Mbps :-(
It theoretically has a data cap at 50 gb but it isn't enforced.
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Fraud yes, because they're underprovisioned if everyone asks for 1 Gb, but the ponzi scheme continues to work okay because many households will find that median 72 Mbps is enough for several vid streams so they're good to go. The bigger problem is the industry which can do horrible, abusive things to its customers and communities. They'll try anything except delighting their customers. If any of the upcoming WISP sol…
How is this a Ponzi scheme?
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How is this a Ponzi scheme?
As GP (and FCC) indicates, you pay for a service but only get what was promised if the collective load permits. If everyone hits their lines at the same time, there's not enough capacity to maintain advertised service.
Ft. Collins is huge (~170k people compared to most CO towns which are 400-10k ppl). The title sort of leads you to believe it was a folksy, rural community effort. In reality Intel, AMD, Broadcom and a major State University are located there and that probably helped the effort substantially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,_Colorado#Major_i...
Could someone please explain the background to someone not from the US? Why is competition so scarce in this field in the US? Is it just the cost of infrastructure over large distances, or is something else at play here?
In the US there are over 50 metro areas with more than 1 million inhabitants, over 100 with 500k. Granted that they will be more sparsely populated than european metro areas but I'm just not too sure that the large distances are an issue here at all.
I live in EU. I pay 15 EUR per month for 1 Gbps.
I think our bundle also includes phone and TV but we use neither, works out cheaper that way ...
I'm in the Philippines and I pay $200 for 10Mbps :-(
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As GP (and FCC) indicates, you pay for a service but only get what was promised if the collective load permits. If everyone hits their lines at the same time, there's not enough capacity to maintain advertised service.
That doesn't describe a Ponzi scheme though.
Edit: Yes, it's not a great analogy.
I pay 75$ CDN for 1Gbps with no cap in Toronto, and I used to think we had it bad in Canada.. "Fighting" with a local cable company (monopoly I assume?) to offer a 1Gpbs service in 2019 is depressing.
I'm hoping Beanfield continues to expand their area of competition.