{"id":15032,"date":"2015-03-25T23:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T04:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15032"},"modified":"2015-03-25T23:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T04:51:19","slug":"new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15032","title":{"rendered":"New Homeowner Has To Sell House Because Of Comcast\u2019s Incompetence, Lack Of Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2015\/db0224\/FCC-15-10A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">latest Broadband Progress Report from the FCC<\/a>, 4% of all Americans \u2014 and only 2% of people in Washington state \u2014 lack access to even the most basic non-mobile broadband service. But Seth\u2019s story makes us wonder how many consumers are being counted as having access to these services when in fact the service providers refuse to make them available?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s in the best interest of Comcast, CenturyLink and others to assume an address is serviceable just because it falls within a certain ZIP code or municipal boundary \u2014 because it gives the illusion that they are providing service to more customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/03\/25\/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition\/\">New Homeowner Has To Sell House Because Of Comcast\u2019s Incompetence, Lack Of Competition \u2013 Consumerist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest Broadband Progress Report from the FCC, 4% of all Americans \u2014 and only 2% of people in Washington state \u2014 lack access to even the most basic non-mobile broadband service. But Seth\u2019s story makes us wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15032\">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":[1121],"tags":[635,1344,940],"class_list":["post-15032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-comcast","tag-municipal-broadband","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15032","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=15032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15033,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15032\/revisions\/15033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}