I finally quit fighting my landlord over the cable monopoly and got a business line instead

Sam Smith · 2026-10-16T09:40:03.402189+00:00

I run a small print shop in a strip mall outside Cleveland and for two years I was stuck with the residential cable plan the building forced on us. Upload speeds capped around 10 Mbps, which meant sending a big press-ready PDF took longer than actually printing the job. Last month a rep from a regional fiber company stopped by during lunch and asked one question I could not answer: what is your upload speed costing you per week? I did the math and realized two late deliveries had already cost me $600 in refunds. I switched to a 500 Mbps symmetric business line three weeks ago and my afternoon rush jobs now go out the same day. If you are in an older commercial building, has anyone here gotten out of a building-wide contract without paying the buyout fee?

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