AOL will do fine. Believe me, cablecos are no angels. They DO have it good when they negotiate a long term franchise agreement & then do not deliver the level of service expected by the municipality's residents. My cableco, Century Communications, is the source of many complaints, though my experience with them is generally good. The pricing you describe is exactly what I pay.
My only complaint is why they have been soooo slow in upgrading their plant to deliver Internet access. This IMHO is the result of "cushy" agreements they have negotiated they permits them to drag their feet for an unreasonable length of time before the municipality has the opportunity to replace them with a competing franchise that will promise the moon.
IMHO, the only reason Century has dragged it feet investing in upgrading its plant in one of the most densely populated, computer saavy, higher income areas in the US: westside of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach . . . you get the picture is Leonard Tow's greed to get the most for least when selling Century in which he holds controlling interest. Only under a regulatory structure such as we have with cable where there is less regulation & relatively no competition could such a tactic be executed to the detriment of subcribers.
The efforts by T & the unbundling of the last mile will change all this going foward. JMO. |
