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Comment Re:Oh, this is good (Score 1) 179

I don't have a lease, but fuel (~$200/mo), insurance ($140/mo), and parking ($100/mo) alone cost me about $450/mo. And then there's the 3 times per year I have maintenance which usually clocks in at $150-200 depending on what needs to be done (synthetic oil is expensive). And if you have a lease, what's that worth now? I've seen low end cars run $200/mo.

An additional A/C unit and extra lights running are not going to cost you $650+/mo.

Comment Re:Agree with the premise, not the message. (Score 3, Insightful) 37

ISPs are often telephone companies and cable companies. Guess which telecom sectors are dead or dying? That's right. Home telephone lines and cable TV subscriptions.

They assumed that the internet (or other technologies) would never supplant their "core" businesses but cellular has destroyed the home telephone, and internet streaming is killing off Cable TV. They have to make up the revenue somehow and in a lot of places their customer fees are regulated. And here we are today.

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