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Comment If you have bandwidth caps (Score 1) 160

It's not much of a stretch to use your phone/hotspot instead.

Another thing charter and comcast don't appear to be doing is fiber.

There are at least 2 companies locally stringing fiber as fast as they can.

500mb/s symmetrical for like $40-$50 a month, up to 1gb/s for like $100 a month.

There are some downsides to one of the companies, due to their natting, there isn't any way to host services on home connections. They do have business accounts that will work, which cost more...

Submission + - Cable Broadband Growth Is Sputtering, and No One's Sure Why (bloomberg.com)

JoeyRox writes: Something is slowing internet subscriber growth at Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc., raising concerns about an end to what has been a huge growth business, with explanations ranging from a slowdown in consumer spending to competition from phone giants. Charter on Friday reported 25% fewer new broadband subscribers than analysts estimated and said the overall number of new customers would fall back to 2018 levels. Comcast, which had earlier cut its subscriber forecast, reported 300,000 new internet customers Thursday, less than half the number added a year ago. Charter’s shortfall raises “questions about whether this is the beginning of the end of the cable broadband story,” said Geetha Ranganathan, an industry analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.

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