We are pretty much screwed in WNY!
Time Warner has the monopoly on high speed Internet! Now since Comcast took over Time Warner, we will be getting screwed even more!
Verizon has very limited areas where FIOS is available and has been dragging their sorry asses on expanding FIOS availability for years! Would love to get faster FIOS but when asking Verizon when will it come, all they say is they have NO plans to expand FIOS further this year.
WNY and the USA is falling behind other countries when it comes to high speed FIOS. Japan for example has over 90% of their country wired for Super FIOS (running 3-4 x faster, or more, than Verizion FIOS) and costs about $25 to $56 per month! Other European countries also have access to higher speed Internet than the USA. Don't know what or who is holding back the USA in this regard!
U.S. vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Provision Pricing
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Fiber-optic service
In the U.S., Verizon is the only large provider of fiber-optic service, FiOS. There are three options of the service, 15Mbps, 25Mbps, and 50Mbps, $50-$145 per month.
In Japan, the average of fiber-optic speed is up to 100Mbps~1Gbps, costs from $25 to $56 per month ($0.06-0.7 per megabit) for condo residences (up to 6 households or so) depending on VDSL/LAN/Fiber distribution; single house residences are charged higher rates, $55-67($0.03-0.6 per megabit), which is both much cheaper and much faster than the U.S.
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