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Honest question (I may have misunderstood): Do you mean to imply that those are good prices? For reference, I'm paying about $40 for 1000 mbps (I'm not in the US). Can go to 10gbps for about double that price (IIRC), but I think the bottleneck becomes server bandwidth so it wouldn't speed me up for most services.

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I pay $50 for symmetric gigabit in Redmond, WA. Not everywhere in US has crappy internet but the most populous places are entrenched.

$80 USD for 1000mbps in Tennessee, USA. Unfortunately I have the best internet of all my friend groups and will be moving across town to a newer home soon where the best I can get is 50mbps for $50 USD.

It is completely random what internet speeds you can get. The only constant is the monopoly of Comcast & AT&T.

If you list two things, it’s not a monopoly.

A duopoly can be a distinction without a difference if there's territory-dividing collusion, or even just game-theoretically "optimal" moves by the players towards a sub-optimal state for the customers.

Yep and here is a useful calculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl%E2%80%93Hirschman_I....

They have different words, use them.

Two can be as lonely as one, but it’s still two.

I pay $59/month for 1 gbps through Sonic in Oakland (SF Bay Area).

I do as well in SF. And it’s 1gbps SYMMETRIC.

USD35 for 1gbit symmetric fiber here! Non US.

I pay $60 for gigabit in Denver -- but my ISP is owned by Big G.

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