On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote:
> > On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Even in such populous areas as San Jose, there is a limited selection to a >> majority of the customers, especially if they want more than 1.5Mbps. > > I lived in San Jose for several years, and had several choices for broadband > - the one I chose was much faster than 1mb/sec, had an AUP which specifically > allowed me to run a server, and didn't try to cap my bandwidth, or disable > the use of p2p apps, or whatever. > > I moved away from San Jose in at the tail-end of 2007. It seems likely that > at least the same level of choice prevails there today . . . > So, I lived in San Jose, too, for many years, and I had fewer choices there than I do here now in the Pacific Northwest. In any event, depending on where you are in the U.S., many consumers have a choice between bad and worse. :-) - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
