How many consumers want (or would utilize) gigabit fiber to the home?
How many people thought they would ever need more than 56K? And that was less than 20 years ago for some. Instead of maximizing short-term profits, they need to actually reinvest in infrastructure. We never would have had the copper lines to rot out in the first place if there was never a big buildout before.
Even with 5G there is a fixed amount of spectrum, which must be shared among the users. Once it's gone, its gone, whereas with cable you can run a separate fibre to each user.
The whole premise of 5G is more and smaller cells. With cable, that's more nodes for a given number of subscriber comparing apples to apples. If you run a fibre to each user, then that's not cable Internet - that's fibre.
Did they actually sell you fiber (Do you have an ONT device in your house?) or did they lie about the DSL that has a DSLAM much closer to you than traditional DSL?
That's what AT&T was doing in my town lately. Selling everyone "fiber" but no fiber optic cable comes anywhere near the house. It's just DSL.
Our electronic banking system is older, and therefore less secure - and it's not changing any time soon. Your account number is basically your password here, so you can't offer it up to accept a transfer. You have to keep it hidden and private.
Compare that to the $200-400 monthly health-insurance costs you can get in the US, where some even include dental.
There is nowhere in the US where this gets you any real coverage unless your employer is providing it and also paying 2x-3x your cost in additional premiums.
If you only want a handful of shows from the other platforms, you can usually buy seasons at a discount later on - streaming or physical. I must be watching a lot fewer shows than most people. And when I start a show, I'm usually watching all of that before I start anything else in the same genre anyway. I signed up for a 7-day trial of CBS All-Access last year and finished the one show I wanted to see before it cost anything. Get over your FOMO, it's practically a mental illness for some people.
DVD maybe. Netflix still has not released Arrested Development Season 4 on Blu-Ray. Available as a streaming purchase from Amazon in HD, but only SD in physical media.
That used to be true. I just cut off my subscription this last month. Everything was either unavailable, long wait, or very long wait. They are sending out bad discs and not restocking. You see their old cast-offs by the hundreds at Dollar General. Their profit is in selling off their old discs and collecting subscription fees from people who don't care about seeing specific movies.
It is going to be cheaper for me to do streaming rentals than to rearrange my queue to get movies that I want to see.
Not for many years. You put that game in with no cords and you don't get the 10s of GB of release-day updates. But that's the whole reason they want to keep pushing this. They're already not giving you a copy of the finished game.
Game streaming seems to start at 25Mbps and don't handle retransmits all that well (e.g. input lag). WiFi is only an option if you spent a lot of money on a good setup.
its much more likely that lower income parents will be able to afford to give their children the occasional game.
So instead of buying a used game for cheap that runs fine on older hardware, they have to subscribe to basically ALL the games and have something that decodes H.264 well.
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How many consumers want (or would utilize) gigabit fiber to the home?
How many people thought they would ever need more than 56K? And that was less than 20 years ago for some. Instead of maximizing short-term profits, they need to actually reinvest in infrastructure. We never would have had the copper lines to rot out in the first place if there was never a big buildout before.
Even with 5G there is a fixed amount of spectrum, which must be shared among the users. Once it's gone, its gone, whereas with cable you can run a separate fibre to each user.
The whole premise of 5G is more and smaller cells. With cable, that's more nodes for a given number of subscriber comparing apples to apples. If you run a fibre to each user, then that's not cable Internet - that's fibre.
Did they actually sell you fiber (Do you have an ONT device in your house?) or did they lie about the DSL that has a DSLAM much closer to you than traditional DSL?
That's what AT&T was doing in my town lately. Selling everyone "fiber" but no fiber optic cable comes anywhere near the house. It's just DSL.
Our electronic banking system is older, and therefore less secure - and it's not changing any time soon. Your account number is basically your password here, so you can't offer it up to accept a transfer. You have to keep it hidden and private.
Good luck showing up for an emergency organ transplant.
Compare that to the $200-400 monthly health-insurance costs you can get in the US, where some even include dental.
There is nowhere in the US where this gets you any real coverage unless your employer is providing it and also paying 2x-3x your cost in additional premiums.
If you only want a handful of shows from the other platforms, you can usually buy seasons at a discount later on - streaming or physical. I must be watching a lot fewer shows than most people. And when I start a show, I'm usually watching all of that before I start anything else in the same genre anyway. I signed up for a 7-day trial of CBS All-Access last year and finished the one show I wanted to see before it cost anything. Get over your FOMO, it's practically a mental illness for some people.
Cutting production costs to switch to reality TV means greater profits. Until nobody is paying for it, that is.
If saving money is denial, then I don't want to face the truth.
Most be whatever made the summary writer quote the Washington Post.
Your sarcasm detector is broken.
Or clicking random shared links on Facebook - this is the #1 way.
For a 20-40 year old movie, you could buy a used copy for under $5. You will probably come out ahead.
That's like not blaming Alphabet for anything Google does. It's a wholly owned subsidiary.
This is exactly why I canceled last month. That and I have been to busy to watch and realized I paid something like $50 to rent one movie.
DVD maybe. Netflix still has not released Arrested Development Season 4 on Blu-Ray. Available as a streaming purchase from Amazon in HD, but only SD in physical media.
That used to be true. I just cut off my subscription this last month. Everything was either unavailable, long wait, or very long wait. They are sending out bad discs and not restocking. You see their old cast-offs by the hundreds at Dollar General. Their profit is in selling off their old discs and collecting subscription fees from people who don't care about seeing specific movies.
It is going to be cheaper for me to do streaming rentals than to rearrange my queue to get movies that I want to see.
You said no, but then linked to where Wikipedia says yes. San Fernando Valley is part of the LA metro area.
Might as well go back to AOL Keywords.
Not for many years. You put that game in with no cords and you don't get the 10s of GB of release-day updates. But that's the whole reason they want to keep pushing this. They're already not giving you a copy of the finished game.
Game streaming seems to start at 25Mbps and don't handle retransmits all that well (e.g. input lag). WiFi is only an option if you spent a lot of money on a good setup.
I was with you until you made your backup of ebooks be unformatted plain text instead of an open standard like ePub.
games on CD? Don't they just have a shortcut to steam.com? I've never seen a patched release in recent history except on gog.com
its much more likely that lower income parents will be able to afford to give their children the occasional game.
So instead of buying a used game for cheap that runs fine on older hardware, they have to subscribe to basically ALL the games and have something that decodes H.264 well.
Remind me to never borrow an Ethernet cable from you.