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Deegs posted...

Coincidence doesn't equal coordination you have to prove this.

I said it's not a coincidence, not that it is. You yourself said this:

Deegs posted...

Often times a Duopoly isn't much better than a monopoly because neither party has to be substantially better than the other.

Do you think ISPs aren't aware of this or something? Do you really think, with two separate technologies that have entirely separate physical limitations on bandwidth, it's a coincidence that neither AT&T or Spectrum offered more than 50 Mbps? AT&T and Spectrum were both well aware that they existed in a duopoly in most of the city and didn't have to be substantially better than the other. Time Warner's CTO put out a blatantly false statement about customers not wanting higher speeds and AT&T followed suit. It's plain as day.

All of a sudden when Google Fiber comes to town, Spectrum starts increasing their speeds. If they truly thought customers didn't want higher speeds based on an actual legitimate poll instead of whatever bullshit they cooked up to justify the statement, they never would have bothered and their customers would have been happy staying with their lower speeds.

Suddenly Spectrum starts giving their customers free upgrades to 100 Mbps and then 200 Mbps. They didn't do that out of the goodness of their hearts. Then AT&T starts planning for Gigabit service. Then Spectrum starts offering 930 Mbps/35 Mbps over coax.

If Spectrum had actually done a legitimate poll of their customers or done some actual research, they would have known that there was a ton of desire for higher bandwidth at the time.

Coordination doesn't have to be explicit to be coordination.