Obviously ISPs are making tons of fiat in this pandemic per…
Obviously ISPs are making tons of fiat in this pandemic period as most workers work remotely.
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My ISP was just acquired by a competitor, my symmetric line won’t be renewed when it ends, so much worse connection.
I think they bought it for bandwidth capacity issues on their own network, so they won’t allow customers have more than 10% upload speed.
Personal or business connection?
Where I live (Australia), you'd only get symmetric by paying a large premium, if it was available at all. Where I live, it's not available and my connection (though just upgraded) is pretty basic by modern standards.
Symmetric 50/50 mbit (there was also 100/100 and 200/200).
Personal, pretty standard available in the city of Mexico where I live. Now they’ve changed to this 100/10 as their highest product.
I still keep my 50/50 until renewal (they decide really).
Yeah, I can see why you would want to keep that as long as possible! I'm on 45/15 here, which is a lot better than the 10/0.5 I had until just a few months ago.
It's been easy one for ISPs here. More businesses are increasing their subscription period and also getting more of their staff connected so as to work remotely.
On the acquisition of your ISPs by competitor, it'd be the reason you posited. 1/
...Or probably faulty business model. Where I am from, most of the ISPs outsourced part of their operations to contractors thus minimizing operational cost. They rarely declare.