Traditional Providers Losses, 4th Quarter 2024 Edition

[Bruce]

Windstream (Kinetic) has been boring and pulling conduit and fiber through my neighborhood for the last 3-4 weeks.

Quantum (Century Link) has all the work done in my neighborhood, my install keeps getting delayed, 6 months now, the newest thing I have heard is in the summer.

I have no idea why.

 

[osu1991]

Quantum (Century Link) has all the work done in my neighborhood, my install keeps getting delayed, 6 months now, the newest thing I have heard is in the summer.

I have no idea why.

It was about 6 months start to finish before I could switch over to the fiber, when Cox bored and pulled fiber through my neighborhood a couple years ago

 

[savarese04]

Serious question, but is fiber not considered “broadband” or is it only DOCSIS delivered internet? I ask because some of these providers do have both DOCSIS and fiber. When their broadband count goes down, that’s not because they’re moving to the fiber offerings.

 

[John2021]

Well I noticed on my Spectrum bill that they are still finding ways to make more money. I had a 12 month promotion for internet 300 speed for $63. 60 a month. That was in May and I saw my bill go up by $2.00, because they started charging for Wifi tower we have at $5.00 and that was in July and our speed went to 500. Then by fall it went up to $7.00 for the same tower. This month for February they went up another $3.00 to $10.00 for Wifi. I get a $5.00 discount for autopay. But now my bill is at $68.36 and now my speed is at 600 and supposedly no extra increase. Right......But without the wifi tower we would have trouble having everything connected to the internet and it does reach through out the house and even the yard . But sneaky the way they keep passing on these charges when the whole reason I set up the promotion was to save money.

Buy your own modem and router!!!! They gave us there gig service for 45.00 a month for 3 years. Have you called in and threatened to cancel.

 

[meStevo]

Serious question, but is fiber not considered “broadband” or is it only DOCSIS delivered internet? I ask because some of these providers do have both DOCSIS and fiber. When their broadband count goes down, that’s not because they’re moving to the fiber offerings.

FCC considers anything greater than 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload as broadband. Typically when people talk about moving to fiber it's because more competitive offers come along with it as it signals an introduction of a competitor in a monopoly situation like Cox has in Vegas, or just simply lower rates overall due to the competition.

It's all broadband, but it's typically a faster and cheaper option.

I'm paying Cox $170/mo for 1gb down, 35 up ($50 of that for unlimited data)... look at these Google Fiber offerings coming to my area at some point in the next year or so ideally, and with no data caps: