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New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill - Ars Technica
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The funniest (or saddest?) part of all this is that $15 is considered "low". It's still pretty high for something so vital (and tbf I'd much rather see a requirement for like 5-10 Mbps at $5 or so; you don't need much bandwidth for meaningful, very useful service).
I not disagreeing but $15 would still put it at one of the cheapest if not the cheapest vital service. I’m not sure you could get any other utility for much lower than that.
Sure, but the fixed costs are really low (mostly administrative and one-time installation related stuff which you could potentially just charge for separately) and the ongoing costs per customer are close to zero.
Also really depends on where you live; I guess for NY it's a really good deal.