{"id":14226,"date":"2014-10-08T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14226"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:26:10","slug":"how-come-my-isp-wont-increase-internet-speed-and-lower-my-bill-like-they-do-in-sweden-vz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14226","title":{"rendered":"How Come My ISP Won&#8217;t Increase Internet Speed and Lower My Bill, Like They Do in Sweden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The American model is powered by private, for-profit organizations. On the next level down, consumers are facing a Balkanized patchwork of cable, fiber, and DSL services with minimal competition and zero infrastructure sharing. Flooding or overriding this system with government support would be politically impossible, so we&#8217;re stuck with this framework. That means focusing on profits over service quality, and there is no incentive at all to lower the cost to consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2014\/10\/07\/how-come-my-isp-wont-increase-internet-speed-and-l.aspx\">How Come My ISP Won&#8217;t Increase Internet Speed and Lower My Bill, Like They Do in Sweden? (VZ)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American model is powered by private, for-profit organizations. On the next level down, consumers are facing a Balkanized patchwork of cable, fiber, and DSL services with minimal competition and zero infrastructure sharing. Flooding or overriding this system with government &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,956],"class_list":["post-14226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}