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Comment Re:Southwest airlines testing now (Score 1) 198

by markttu on Thursday May 07, 2009 @11:11PM (#27872279) Attached to: Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight

I was on a WiFi SWA plane last week. It benchmarked at 5meg down and about 300k up. Ping time was ~800 ms. I don't have the tracert anymore, but service on SWA is provided via http://www.row44.com/

Comment Re:Welcome to our world (Score 1) 589

by markttu on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @05:47PM (#23644309) Attached to: Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use

All the US has is monopoly areas. That's because our fucked-up government handed out monopolies on phone service way back when, and "deregulation" doesn't help anything but picking who bills your phone service: all they do is "lease" your particular line from the company that owns it.

Not true, not true at all. Deregulation has created competition in those places where there is money to be made; problem is that in most places people aren't willing to pay enough for their service for a new company to invest in infrastructure.

I know in little old Lubbock Texas you've got at 3 options for high speed internet access in 100% of the city:
ATT (DSL)
SuddenLink (cable)
eRF Wireless (fixed wireless)

On top of that you have: NTS (local telco with their own routers and switches for delivering DSL via copper leased from ATT and their own fiber network to several neighborhoods (growing every day) with any bandwidth you're willing to pay for)
Xanadoo (not the best, but better than satellite)
Clearwire (pretty much same as Xanadoo)

So competition can work, the question is really a matter of is your community willing to pay for it?

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