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Who still pisses and moans about Cable?
Anyone still has cable and complaining, loves the hell they create for them selves, only keep it around to wallow in it with abandonment.

Cut the cord already geesh!

CaptainShuddup says

Cut the cord already geesh!

You must have a slow connection.

You didn't bother to click on the article.

I have AT&T Internet I said I cut the cord. What DON'T you understand?

CaptainShuddup says

Who still pisses and moans about Cable?

You live in Florida. You're only choices for Internet access are cable and the phone company, and both suck. Sure you can get rid of cable t.v. -- I have -- but you still need an ISP and both Comcast and AT&T suck ass as ISPs. Comcast drops your connection for a few hours every night and sporadically throughout the day. But what choice do you have?

When 4G, or maybe 5G, comes to south Florida -- and don't hold your breath because we're not as profitable as densely populated areas like NYC -- you can't drop your wired and monopolized ISP.

American Internet access sucks compared to most of the industrial world, especially Japan.

CaptainShuddup says

I have AT&T Internet I said I cut the cord. What DON'T you understand?

Ah, but you haven't really cut the cord then. AT&T is no better than Comcast and for many people, it's not an option because of how far they live from the central office.

Where I live you get to choose between AT+T, Comcast/Xfinity and sonic.com for Internet service ... guess I could go to Starbucks and use their free Wi-Fi ... if you know of an Internet provider in the SF Bay Area, I'd love to hear about it...

It only cost me $29.00 a month for the same crappy service.
At least I'm not paying $50 plus have to carry $75 basic cable. Like Comcast requires.
You can't just get Comcast internet.

AT&T tried to get us to bundle home phone or cell phone with it, we told them to shove it up their ass.

I had AT+T Intenet Service and it couldn't run Youtube without long buffering pauses ... I think Google is building fiber in this area ... but it's only a rumor...

CaptainShuddup says

I said I cut the cord.

Many cord cutters (defined as those who dump cable television for on-demand video access) are still stuck with major asshole internet providers, which is what the article is about. Until Verizon Fios and Google Fiber come to town, you're still stuck with shitty overpriced service.

CaptainShuddup says

You can't just get Comcast internet.

Bzzzt! [Splice in sad trombone sound: "Bwaaah wuuuh!"]

Incorrect! Plenty of people use Comcast for internet access only, without phone or cable.

Well just not in the south Florida market.
Where we only have two choices.

CaptainShuddup says

It only cost me $29.00 a month for the same crappy service.

Ah, they must have removed their "you must have a phone line" requirement. It was like $40/month when they required phone connectivity.

In any case, the problem with phone company ISPs is that the technology they use, DSL, is very distance dependent. The longer the wire, the less reliably packets are transmitted and the slower the effective connection is. In practice, you have to be within 1/3rd the maximum distance to the central office for DSL to be practical. That leaves 88.88889% of people outside the feasible area, so most people end up having to accept cable.

In any case, I found DSL through AT&T to be just as unreliable and slow as Comcast and I was about 1/10th the maximum distance to the central office. So I should have gotten reasonable service.