I noticed in my area SBC Yahoo is now offering $15.95/month for dsl for one year.
Comcast cable is offering $19.99/month for 6 months in my area.
Sonic.net has pretty good DSL speeds for $18 or $24/month.
Cities are trying to wire their towns with cheap WIFI, some as low as $16/month.
Corporations are opposed to cities offering broadband (obviously they don’t want the competition), but they claim the city has an unfair advantage.
Here’s a good article on it.
I personally think if the city wants to provide it, the corporations should compete. The more choice in the market, the more competitive the pricing becomes.
I currently have comcast, at $45/month for broadband. I think that is way too high, and am seriously considering switching to sonic.net for the 384k upload.
Updated: I just got off the phone with comcast, and they agreed to lower my monthly broadband bill to $19.99/month for the next 6 months.
What you should do, goto http://comcast.com and do a price search in your area. (Mine came back as $19.99/month), then call up (be polite), ask if they can give you the same price. If they say no, it’s an introductory offer, say “well, Yahoo DSL is $15/month, why in the heck am I paying $42?”.
The guy then agreed to give it to me for $19.99 for the next 6 months.
If they come back with “but cable is faster than dsl” say, I’ve had both, and don’t notice any difference in speed. Might want to mention the nationwide comcast outages too ;-)
