Broadband access to my neighborhood in Southwest Portland is limited to one vendor: Comcast. They have a lock on wired broadband and exploit that in their pricing. Comcast's offerings include broadband, cable TV, and telephone services all based upon their wire-based infrastructure. They have competitors in TV and Telephone (dish network and Century Link, respectively), but not in broadband Ethernet.
What can the consumer do to foster competitive service offerings?
- Clear is available for wireless broadband, but not effective for the large-scale streaming that would be required to turn off Comcast's TV service.
- DSL is not an option.
- Dish Network will provide TV, but not broadband.
- Don't really care about telephone, but need a land line for alarm monitoring.
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