sometimes it's hard to judge which is company is better. your location has a lot to do with it especially if you live in an apartment building. sometimes you have access to both companies but often it can be just one of them and you have no choice. sometimes you don't have access to the best or fastest service the companies have to offer because of an aging infrastructure. ymmv is the best way to describe the situation.

as far as comparing to other companies and services on the mainland we could do a lot worse. there are places where there are monopolies. worse when you're stuck with a company like comcast and you don't even have unlimited internet which is taken for granted here never mind some "top" speeds of 25 megabits. bundled service for one television and a monthly fee of over $200 is just nuts. this example is from cities near the capital of washington state.

so yes we could have better service but looking from other locations you could also say we're lucky for what we have.