What internet service provider is popular in your area?

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1. It is true that ISPs pretty much divided up the country and work as a cartel.

   Where I live, it’s one of the rare places where you can have two ISPs service most addresses. Comcast and Verizon are both options.

   However where my parents have their vacation home, Spectrum is the *only* option unless you want expensive and slow satellite service. Starlink and LTE-based services may change this though.

2. Spectrum is the only option in my area. But I have no complaints about them.

3. Comcast is the only option. About 5 miles away they also have Verizon as an option.

4. Around here its AT&T, Xfinity, and CenturyLink. I also know a guy down the road who has Viasat, no idea why he went with satellite rather than having one of the companies run cable to his place, but his property *is* pretty huge.

   Most of the neighbors I talk to switched from AT&T to Comcast over the last year or so. So did we because the connection was getting kind of spotty.

5. AT&T, Comcast/Xfinity, and Brighthouse/Spectrum are the major players in central Indiana. T-Mobile is starting to provide Internet service via their 5g towers, which are mostly placed on utility structures and for now are mainly in more urbanized parts of the metro area.

   Some of the northern burbs have a regional provider called Metronet.

   The more rural, further flung parts of central Indiana have a few rural Internet providers too.

6. I have Verizon Fios and it’s great. $30ish for 300 mbps. Could pay more for faster but what I have is plenty.

7. Based on how many posts I see in my neighborhood Facebook group when service goes out, most people have at&t

8. Verizon and Comcast are the two big ones here. Most people in the Philly area can get either, as Comcast owns most of the cable infrastructure while Verizon owns the phone/fiber optic infrastructure.

   I personally have Verizon. They’re the same price as Comcast for the same download speed, but have far better upload speeds and no data caps.

9. There are basically two options in my area: charter spectrum and at&t.

   Unless at&t actually offers Google fiber in your area though, charter is what you want.

   There are some other companies offering internet options. But none at nearly the same speed.

10. We have Verizon, Comcast, RCN, and maybe others

11. You generally only get one option. For example, where I grew up, Comcast, verizon, and frontier all existed, but there weren’t places you got to choose between them.

12. Cox or Cox

13. AT&T, Charter, and a fiber only service marketed by our electrical co-op. Will be signing up for the fiber service soon.

14. i hear a lot of comcast .

    But we live out in the country and use huesnet. and it sucks. The 5g on my phone is faster.

15. My choices are windstream and spectrum

16. Here, it’s Xfinity, AT & T or Direct TV. I had AT & T for a while–it sucked. I don’t want to deal with a dish, so I won’t go to Direct TV. So I’m stuck with Xfinity–which I find reliable and I do like the Flex TV that comes with it.

17. We’re served primarily by both Verizon fIOS and Comcast’s xfinity. However, I do think there are other smaller ISPs that you can use

18. Spectrum cable is the primary at-home provider. Frontier DSL is available, but it’s slower and costs about the same, so I don’t know anyone who uses it. Verizon has been pushing their 5G at-home Internet as faster and cheaper than Spectrum, but I don’t know anyone who’s gone that way yet – I’m wary of a wireless ISP. Greenlight fiber is very, very slowly rolling out in the area, but isn’t available in my neighborhood yet (nor for at least a few more years)

19. It’s AT&T or Spectrum here. There are some others available, however they use the one or the other and are just a 3rd party. I actually had EarthLink, but my bill came from Brighthouse, which is now Spectrum. EarthLink did have their own customer service, but if I had issues they explained that Brighthouse had priority and my service was slowed down.

20. Verizon and Comcast are the 2 biggest.

21. We have a lot of choice here in the Bay Area. I used to use Sonic for the past few years in Oakland. (1GB/s up & down, $100/month) My new condo includes Google WebPass Fiber with the HOA, also 1GB/s up & down, buying bulk for the building works out to $18/month/unit.

    People still tend to default to Comcast and AT&T for some reason. Maybe they’re not aware they have other options.

22. In my area we only have Sprectrum or satellite/dish. Where I lived previously we only had Comcast.

    I think it is a travesty that internet companies can stake out a geographic monopoly like this. Service absolutely suffers because they know you have almost no other option.

23. Right now, Mediacom and Frontier are the game in my area. Both suck and are slow as hell. However it seems like we are getting fiber this summer. Hopefully that is better than the other options. Town at happy with it though, they’d much prefer if fiber didn’t come to town. But the state said f you to all rural towns and gave permits for fiber build outs in the rural communities.

24. None are popular. They are all unpopular.

25. Spectrum, AT&T, or some places near me have Google Fiber.

26. Where I live if you want internet speeds over 25mbps, there’s only one option: Spectrum.

    There are a couple other small time ISPs around, but their service speeds max out at 10 Mbps and 25mbps.