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Maleficent-Twist-308 t1_isprds2 wrote
Reply to comment by BoricPenguin in Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP | Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network. by chrisdh79
What’s worse is these mega corps don’t even have to provide to your house to make money. The big boys own the Tier 1 backbone lines so even if you don’t have them, you likely are still paying a company who is paying them for use of the Tier 1 backbone they own. Most Tier 3 providers pay for use on Tier 1 backbone upstream from their service area.
Maleficent-Twist-308 t1_iujs11m wrote
Reply to Left in isolation: how the online revolution failed our elderly people | As day-to-day services increasingly move to the internet, older and vulnerable people are cut off by SetMau92
Most older people refuse to try to learn technology. I work for an ISP and most older people are very resistant to learning anything. They say “you fix it” and rage when they don’t get things fixed for them immediately over and over. There are exceptions, but most have no desire to learn. They just say “I don’t do this tech stuff.”