cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoGoogle Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable companyarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1349arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·8 months agoThey just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.
minus-squareBananaIsABerry@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoEvery ISP is pretty shit to be fair. Doubt whoever they sell to is worse than the other options. (fuck spectrum)
minus-squareunphazed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoYeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)
minus-squareTest_Tickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoIt will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.
minus-squareegregiousRac@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI haven’t used RCN/Astound since COVID, but they were pretty decent before then. Far better than Comcast.
They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.
Every ISP is pretty shit to be fair. Doubt whoever they sell to is worse than the other options.
(fuck spectrum)
Yeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)
It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.
I haven’t used RCN/Astound since COVID, but they were pretty decent before then. Far better than Comcast.