On Free Market and Internet Providers One of the things that never fail to amaze me, here in U.S., is the lack of competition between the internet service providers. I mean, this country is supposed

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On Free Market and Internet Providers One of the things that never fail to amaze me, here in U.S., is the lack of competition between the internet service providers. I mean, this country is supposed to be the homeland of free market, and still there are only two ISP where I live, and both of them offers more or less the same services for the same prices. And it's not that I am in a rural town in the middle of Nebraska, I am in Cambridge, hometown of Google, my flat is 2 miles from the M.I.T.! When I was in Italy, I lived in small town in the suburbia of Milan. Well, believe it or not, I could choose between some five or six ISP, and one also offered optic fiber connection for a pretty reasonable price - less than what I am paying here for an average ADSL in fact. And it was something like ten years ago! Anyway, don’t take this as a real complaint, at the end of the day, my ADSL is enough for me, and I wouldn’t exchange a faster internet connection with the opportunity to live in place rich of stimuli like Cambridge/Boston. It’s just that we Italians use to complain a lot, in particular when we are in a foreign country; then, when we are back home, we start to complain again about how things work so much better abroad... PIcture by: Dr. Avishai Teicher Pikiwiki Israel

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On the Free Market and Internet Providers

One of the things that never fails to amaze me, here in the U.S., is the lack of competition between the internet service providers.
I mean, this country is supposed to be the homeland of the free market, and still there are only two ISPs where I live, and both of them offers more or less the same services for the same prices. And it's not that I am in a rural town in the middle of Nebraska, I am in Cambridge, hometown of Google, my flat is 2 miles from the M.I.T.!
When I was in Italy, I lived in a small town in the suburbia of Milan. Well, believe it or not, I could choose between some five or six ISPs, and one also offered optic fiber connection for a pretty reasonable price - less than what I am paying here for an average ADSL in fact. And it was something like ten years ago!

Anyway, don’t take this as a real complaint, at the end of the day, my ADSL is enough for me, and I wouldn’t exchange a faster internet connection for the opportunity to live in place rich with stimuli like Cambridge/Boston. It’s just that we Italians are used to complaining a lot, in particular when we are in a foreign country; then, when we are back home, we start to complain again about how things work so much better abroad...

Hello Sergio,

I know exactly how you feel! When I am at home now I compare things to England but when I get back to England, I find things often better here!

Just a few small mistakes - the expression be/get used to is followed by a noun or verb-ing. One of the exceptions to 'to + infinitive'.

Hope this helps

Bob

So are right! We poor Americans pay MORE for CRAPPY SLOW internet than many places in the world. But ya know, we think we are the best on earth, so....

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