25 years ago, i had cable with all the 'premiums', and internet.. for less than what that same company gets just for the slowest 'available' internet (only) today. despite the cost to deliver bits to the home being lower now. yes. it's faster today but the speed i had before was enough to watch a stream in realtime. it'd still be enough to watch an hd stream today (and then by extension, 'fast enough' for anything else i care to do at home). i never asked for faster, i wanted to keep the 'cheaper' but that's not an option. they want their 90 percent pure profit. the shareholders demand it.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

I had just spectrum Internet for years and the price and speed just kept going up. I agree I don't need 300mbps.

I switched to 5g mint mobile for a third of the cost and half the speed.

When I quit spectrum they said I should just call them whenever the price was too high and they'd give me some promotional price for 12 months or so. That just pissed me off more.