It's horribly overpriced. There is no excuse good enough for the piss poor service that is available.

I moved to usa from the UK and was shocked at how bad the internet was here, its not the best in the UK but its still better than here. The one thing over here that is far worse value than the UK is cell phones.

 I have never seen such crazy high prices for contracts, and if you dont have a contract that gives unlimited minutes you pay for not only calls you make but calls you recive. I mean WTH someone calls you and not only do they have to pay but you will have to pay too. Same for text messages, its crazy. Pay more per month, pay more for the phone and pay not only to make calls but to recive them as well.

 And if you get a non contract phone and dont top up for a month you lose all your credit and they cut your service, whatever you do you cant win.

I pay 70 a month for "broadband" ha ha. The fastest I have ever gotten from this company was 100k. My cap is 200mb a day after that they cut you off literally. Your banned from there internet for twenty four hours and your connection gets throttled down to five kilobytes a second. That's twenty four consecutive hours the more you keep trying to use it after it started being throttled the longer the shit last. So basically I get "broadband" for about twenty minutes a day at the most. Long enough to do my homework go on youtube and check my email. When I first got this isp I did not know they throttled this badly I was trying to update my computer it screwed up one of the updates so I could not even use my computer for a couple of days. I called them the next day they told my to update my computer at midnight. I told them to go fuck a porcupine and then die. Fucking assholes.

My family pays $60 for 20/4 from Comcast, although we're looking into AT&T's internet plans.

Not too shabby, but the USA has nothing compared to South Korea. Of course, South Korea has higher rates of internet gaming (ie. WoW) addiction. :/

Yep, don't even get me started on cell phone plans.  I am still under an old plan they got rid of along time ago.  Basically it should be $50 dollars a month for unlimited everything like Cricket and Boost.  I am thinking about switching to Boost once my contract is up in September.  Paying for texting is the biggest scam ever considering it uses way less resources than a normal cell call.  That is why I currently have it disabled on my phone because I refuse to pay more for it or 20 cents a text (Sprint). 

The land excuse is... just that... an excuse.

They can charge more because they have monopoly.

I got faster speeds (340k used to be 720kb, no cap) then that with my internet on my cellphone.. for 10 euros.. >_>

LOL

you haven't seen Australian's ISP 

other than having the slowest internet speeds in the High end league of nations we are also over priced. 

I currently pay for 4mbps download, .7mbps and 50gb of downloads adn that costs me around 80 USD 

but we are going to get 100 mbps fiber optics later in the year soon so yay for the 40 billion being spent on that. 

A graph never lies (jejeje), people out there have it worse than you

australia is spending 40 billion dollars to get speed to 10 mbps min! and around 100 average 

lets hope it works