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Old 04-06-2010, 06:13 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
Most people have only ONE choice. If they have any choice. Now in my town I do have two chocies but if Charter decides to thottle then my other choice is at&t which maxes out at 6 Mbps instead of the up to 60 Mbps I can get from Charter. So is it really a choice?
For a lot of people it will be that way, sadly. Up until a few years ago my town only had one choice. But a friend of mine that lives about 20 minutes from me has several options.

I still think they will not throttle everyone. If they start throttling it down to dial-up speeds, people will never pay full price for that and will go back to dial-up. If people are paying $40-$60 a month for high speed internet they want high speed access and won't settle for getting garbage. But I will not be shocked to see those who use a lot of bandwidth get throttled and be forced to pay more to keep their speed up.
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