The open internet ends today!

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spidey...you and I are in agreement about net neutrality...but you damn well know there is ZERO competition for internet service. People are generally limited to whatever CLEC services their area and possibly a cable provider. Everything else is a reseller of one of the two above mentioned "options". But thats a discussion for another thread.

Yeah, not sure what spidey is getting at here. There's simply no competition in huge swathes of my area here in Los Angeles, with AT&T being the dominant CLEC here and in Northern CA. And that's, of course, all publicly available information.

 

[charrison]

spidey...you and I are in agreement about net neutrality...but you damn well know there is ZERO competition for internet service. People are generally limited to whatever CLEC services their area and possibly a cable provider. Everything else is a reseller of one of the two above mentioned "options". But thats a discussion for another thread.

My guess is about 80% of the country has a choice for broadband/landline from cable or telco at this point. The remain have 1 or none as an option.

But there are significant choice for voice service via wireless and voip.

There is also choice fro broadband via wireless, it is expensive but it is an option.