No, it was all down the ISP and they replaced it across the entire neighbourhood, not limited to just a few houses. They never consulted anyone that I know of, they simply tore out the old stuff and replaced it with DOCSIS 3.x. Besides, people here are clueless about these kind of technologies, just like in most countries, unfortunately.
Besides, no-one would consider taking a service provider to court here, that only happens in the US.
And presumably no choice of a different service provider? I could change to a different provider that uses xDSL for the last mile service at least, but they tend to be quite unreliable in my experience and they're also much more expensive for the same speed I'm getting now.
Internet in the US is awful imho. Every time I have to go for work, it's either crazy expensive with hotel Wi-Fi, or it's 1Mbps or slower, sometimes slower than dial-up.
In fact, I haven't been to a country in Asia that has as crappy internet as US hotels, with China being the one exception, as they block most of the sites I want to access, although not TPU.
