New address and the few internet options are all highway robbery.
@GetSpectrum wants to charge an extra $15 if you want wifi. Whut? @ATT marketing a slug-slow $50-a-month copper line. "For elderly people on email, maybe?" technician said sheepishly. Tell me your horror stories!
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ask Spectrum
Ah, even worse. They want to charge $5 a month forever if you use their equipment for wifi. It's 2018. WIFI IS HOW MOST EVERYONE USES INTERNET. Just price-gouging. I did contact a rep who had nothing else to say because she realized I understood the game.https://twitter.com/Ask_Spectrum/status/1022849197773545472 …
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Ask SpectrumVerified account @Ask_SpectrumReplying to @zeynepMy apologies, there is a $10 activation fee for wireless as well as a monthly cost of $5. You can avoid those costs by using your own equipment and setting up the wireless network yourself. I would also recommend contacting a representative at 855-707-... http://bit.ly/2Agnk839 replies 9 retweets 45 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Richard Herlihy
If you know to ask, they immediately say, ah, okay, use your own router. (which makes more sense). But if you are a non-technical, ordinary person, it just says "Do you want Wi-fi" and you are stuck.https://twitter.com/richardherlihy/status/1022852832310046720 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kamil Choudhury
Yes it is if you are not a technical person and do not understand what these are. I have my own router and this is not a problem for me. They are charging who-knows-how-many people monthly fees for something that should be standard.https://twitter.com/kchoudhu/status/1022852797627330562 …
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Yep, there was a whole set of other hidden charges, weird language there. Also, still can't get over
@ATT charging an enormous fee for very slow internet, basically for "elderly people on email". US is so behind and predatory on broadband it's nuts. https://twitter.com/TonySoaprhino/status/1022853347576111106 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Every candidate I talk to is campaigning on rural broadband. Along with health care, it's one of the few issues that gets people genuinely worked up at campaign events and Q/As. If the national Democrats weren't sold out to corporate interests, they could run very far with it.
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New municipal broadband is prohibited in NC. Thanks, Time Warner.
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Replying to @3vl @thehuntinghouse and
Decentralized politics is the best (for the locally powerful and deep-pocketed).
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