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How many ISPs can this country support?
| May 22nd, 2017 at 7:11:23 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Do you think this country can support this many cable systems? Or will it remain a regional industry?
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| May 22nd, 2017 at 8:59:40 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
Lots of reason for it to remain regional. Remember, most people just have a choice of 2-3 providers. It is like asking how many car dealers do we need? Even if there are 10,000 in the nation I still have 1-2 local for each brand. The President is a fink. |
| May 22nd, 2017 at 9:14:12 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Since most of those are regional, there is room for more, and room for them to expand in to other territories to increase competition. There is still very little choice for high speed (25MBps+) internet access, though. Roughly 78% of Americans either have no high speed access or just one provider. https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-comcast-verizon-home-internet For a lot of people, the choices aren't cost competitive (wireless or satellite vs cable and fibre) or performance competitive - high latency, low data caps, that sort of thing. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| May 22nd, 2017 at 9:19:09 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
When I walk my town or visit small towns around here I wonder about if one can make some money being an ISP. I think you would need 2,000+ customers to make it work. The President is a fink. |
| May 22nd, 2017 at 12:55:26 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Here is a list of DSL providers in this country with population covered over 1 million and states AT&T U-verse 120,698,372 21 Verizon High Speed Internet 49,559,491 11 CenturyLink 48,089,588 38 Frontier Communications 28,724,887 36 Windstream 15,511,654 46 dishNET 9,908,398 31 MegaPath 8,230,620 36 Global Capacity 7,273,427 36 TDS Telecom 5,077,333 28 Sonic.net 3,711,539 1 FairPoint Communications 3,533,849 21 On-Ramp Indiana 1,810,926 1 Cincinnati Bell 1,666,887 11 Earthlink Business 1,582,403 50 Internet Nebraska Corporation 1,386,776 1 ProTronics Technologies 1,370,833 1 Hawaiian Telcom 1,235,577 1 Curatel 1,221,102 1 Consolidated Communications 1,142,234 7 Silver Star Telecom 1,114,545 1 |