<story><title>Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622846/spectrum-charter-cable-internet-new-york-kicked-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismartin</author><text>Direct link to the (scathing!) press release: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;pscweb&amp;#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&amp;#x2F;ArticlesByCategory&amp;#x2F;1F6E451203ADF727852582D7005F8520&amp;#x2F;%24File&amp;#x2F;pr18060.pdf?OpenElement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;pscweb&amp;#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&amp;#x2F;ArticlesByCate...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I&amp;#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum&amp;#x2F;TWC own the cable infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;Spectrum has sent a veritable tree&amp;#x27;s worth of junk mail to my house in the past year, goading me to sign up for their television and landline phone bundle. Spectrum, please die quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>It’s so strange to read this. Where I live, Charter Spectrum is virtually celebrated as awesome. My bill for internet has barely increased at all over the past 10 years but on multiple occasions they have contacted me to upgrade my service for free. Even replaced my cable modem at one point.&lt;p&gt;I’ve gone from 15 to 30 to 60 to 100 and I’m currently at 200. There’s probably been two outages during that entire time period.&lt;p&gt;I see so many people in other parts of the country complaining about their providers and it makes me realize how good we have it here. ATT is still terrible though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622846/spectrum-charter-cable-internet-new-york-kicked-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismartin</author><text>Direct link to the (scathing!) press release: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;pscweb&amp;#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&amp;#x2F;ArticlesByCategory&amp;#x2F;1F6E451203ADF727852582D7005F8520&amp;#x2F;%24File&amp;#x2F;pr18060.pdf?OpenElement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;pscweb&amp;#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&amp;#x2F;ArticlesByCate...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I&amp;#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum&amp;#x2F;TWC own the cable infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;Spectrum has sent a veritable tree&amp;#x27;s worth of junk mail to my house in the past year, goading me to sign up for their television and landline phone bundle. Spectrum, please die quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed.&lt;p&gt;Not me. I live in a small apartment that I pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for. In Franklin County people can get a lot more space for a lot less money. Why should I subsidize their broadband rather than them subsidizing my living space?&lt;p&gt;Life is all about tradeoffs. Wanting to get all the benefits of your choices and have other people pay to ameliorate the downsides is understandable but unreasonable.&lt;p&gt;If we are going to subsidize broadband at all, we should do it statewide and means test it.</text></comment>