• TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’ve seen advertisements fiber internet is in my area (Frontier), starting price is $59, guessing the price goes up eventually?

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          11 months ago

          Nice, was it easy to talk them into the 5 year or is it standard? Spectrum is $79 and getting tired of it. Any comments on the equipment costs or suggestions?

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            10 months ago

            Oh it is $79 now, sure. But next month it will be $84. The next month after that it will be $89.

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            11 months ago

            At&t does the non-intro rate as standard for fiber. I’m not sure about other vendors, but it seems like maybe they’ve realized that most people are wise to their game at this point and have dropped the charade.

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              11 months ago

              Good to know! So are there monthly equipment charges? I do know there’s different equipment for fiber.

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                11 months ago

                It’s included with the total for me. I only have two items on my bill: the exact amount they quoted me for 500/500 fiber, and tax.

                And I mean, it’s only been three months, so I’m not willing to get an AT&T tattoo yet or anything, but they are at least being above-board about everything so far.

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                  11 months ago

                  Oh that’s better, I hate “modem rental fees”. Knowing there aren’t any seems to good to be true these days lol.

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                    11 months ago

                    Agreed so hard. It took me weeks to get Spectrum to take it off my bill after the installer refused to take it back with him. I even drove it to their office and plopped it down on their desk. I couldn’t believe they were being so shady about $5. So far no such problem here.

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        11 months ago

        Only to business/enterprise customers AFAIK. It’s actually rock solid in terms of reliability in my experience with a couple dozen customers in the Midwest. Even their residential coax connections are fiber-uplinked from the nearest switch, and are reasonably reliable.

        Edit: None of which is to suggest that they aren’t still a shitty company in terms of their other business practices. They once included guest hotspots with every new business installation that used their customers’ power to sell more Spectrum services to anyone within WiFi range.

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      11 months ago

      it’s so wild to me that america still views fiber as a new thing, it’s been standard in the nordics for like… 10 years maybe?