U.S. broadband service prices are rising despite hopes for increa...
U.S. broadband service prices are rising despite hopes for increased competition, a Free Press report said: “Cable modem prices are holding constant or rising, and DSL customers on average are getting less bandwidth per dollar than they did just…
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a year ago.” BPL, wireless broadband and satellite Web service marketshare fell over the past 5 years, said the study. People in rural areas are half as likely to get broadband as city dwellers. Other industrialized countries with lower population densities have higher broadband penetration, said the study. It said the FCC should do a better job collecting fast Internet access deployment data. Customer options have increased, an NCTA spokesman told us: “Most cable operators have increased the speed of their service for no additional charge.” FCC Chmn. Martin’s top priority is broadband deployment, an agency official told us, citing his comments at a Senate Commerce Committee renomination hearing Tues. (see separate story). USTelecom said it disagreed with the Free Press report. “DSL prices have fallen 15% just from 2004-2005, while speeds have doubled over the last 2 years,” said Tom Amontree, senior vp- strategic communications.