Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Really? Somebody needs to inform Comcast because I haven’t seen they appear to have forgotten to lower the price of my broadband internet connection.

Although the average worldwide costs paid each month by users of DSL and cable connections are almost identical now, the price per megabit is not. Around the globe, DSL remains far more expensive for the speed you get, but it has also shown the greatest drop in price. Between the first and third quarters of 2008, DSL dropped from $25 per megabit to $18 per megabit.

Cable prices haven’t fallen nearly as much, but cable service remains a far better value on average. While DSL still costs about $1 8per megabit, cable is only $6-7 per megabit. Some of this excellent performance is driven by smaller European operators, which offer both lower prices and faster speeds than they used to. In the US, however, the report notes that “speeds have gone up but the price hasn’t changed.”

I feel sorry for the users of DSL though. We have it around here but it costs more than cable and offers a slower speed. Thanks but no thanks to that.

As far as fiber goes, ha! We’re not going to see that in my little town. Ever.

Given that the cable companies are now going to limit bandwidth to 250GB per month (Comcast) then they should definitely be dropping prices significantly. People signed up for unlimited broadband and now they’re getting screwed by Comcast and others since they’re only going to get 250GB or whatever the arbitrary limit is that’s imposed by the cable company.

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