FCC Adopts New Historic Internet Rules

We use both, I only mentioned the HOA because the neighborhood was built at one time by one developer, and all the relevant infrastructure is in place. Verizon says they don't have equipment in our area, which is wrong, they just don't want to pay for the right to use it because they let someone else pay to lay it.

oh wow after reading through everything going on, I happily support it if it means we'll be getting what we pay for.

Boy I dunno who to pull for in this fight. It's like choosing between ISIS and Al Qaeda. Big monopolistic corporations? Not a fan of those. Big monolithic government? Not a fan of that either, and really it was a combination of both of them that got us into this mess.

I don't trust any of them. I don't trust the companies to care about pleasing the customer since there is no real competition, and I don't trust the government not to continually expand whatever power it gives itself despite who the voters elect.

Yes, I'd love to pay for an inferior product just to help out the little guy. Cable is all I want and mobile service is for my phone. So, yeah, 1 choice.

Mobile LTE networks are significantly different in nature and policy from general home broadband connections.

Mobile data plans more often than not are not only significantly inflated in price, but also have extremely short bandwidth caps and throttling/coverage issues. Honestly they're nothing alike so throwing mobile carriers with ISPs in the same bucket is silly.

Not to even mention the latency they have and dependence on signal quality.

This is total *** and you're glossing over a lot of problems. First and the biggest issue is that the various providers carve up areas and often stay out of each other's areas. TWC and Comcast for example. They are even on the record saying they "don't compete" well there's a good reason for that. They've made deals to not step on each other's feet and because of that, they can jack up the price because they don't have to worry about too many customers jumping ship since so many areas have limited providers.

I'm sure you're aware of what happened in Austin with Google Fiber right? So why was it before Google came in, internet rates were similar to other cities in Texas? Why do they suddenly offer gigabit for a good price the second Google walks in? Competition that's why. They didn't have any real competition before so they never needed to upgrade speeds nor lower prices. San Antonio is a possible Google Fiber city as well. I'd bet my entire paycheck that the moment they are there that the prices will drop and suddenly gigabit will be magically available.

These businesses are here for one reason and only one reason. To make an obscene amount of money. Stockholders don't want them wasting money unnecessarily upgrading connections or lowering costs but when they are forced to by competition they jump. But they have used a lot of money trying their best to get around regulations and avoid competition.

It's funny, the threat of Google Fiber's presence and demand throughout major metropolitan areas is what triggered the sudden influx of many ISPs suddenly doubling their downstream speeds for free. For many moons they were giving you ***service for the highest premium without so much as a peep, simply because they could get away with it.

Actually, for many or most Americans, they are, good catch.

And I should probably add that just because there are some other options in some certain parts does not mean they still do not benefit from the effects of a near monopoly, if not in some parts a complete one.

How long till Obama internet is the next question.

Government will provide you free internet so long as you sell your soul to them !

That's a catch-22 if I ever heard it. Internet use devours your soul already.

Well if the government is watching can they tell my local ISP I'd like fiber optic internet.

Here's to that, they are useful idiots. Haven't learned their lesson from obama care.

Here's to shittier more expensive internet service in the future I guess.

Don't worry Hillary will provide us with free internet !

Just like how Obama provided black people with free Obama phones

There's the imaginary problem, and you're belief that this will make MORE competition is just, wow....

As has been said before, regulation makes competition more difficult. It raises the cost to get in the game. This will encourage more cronyism, not less. Wait till all these rules come out and the administration starts handing out waivers and exemptions to this company over that one.

"Thanks for all those campaign contributions comcast, here's your waiver to all the new rules that were created by an entirely non elected body of government hacks."

Comcast is evil cause they provided me with internet with very little problems for over three years !

I wish I could switch to a less reliable ISP but sadly it's the only option.

Only 3 pages I thought this was the defining decision of the millennium. Only Y2K was more important.

Sounds like you've been slacking. Post moar.

Here's a nice little ELI5 example of the whole situation.

PACKET EQUALITY. SAVE THE PACKETS...

CANT 'DISCRIMINATE' DISCRIMINATE IS BAD K


wheres the human rights groups fighting for packet equality..............................................................................................................................................................................................

Wait... is that a thing? Oh crap...

If we are going to reach page 9 we need something controversial. This is too bland.

Your average joesixpack doesn't care about this.

Unless you told him your porn downloads will be slower.

hows this to keep this going: thank your local big government proponents (see RINOs and democrats) for this. our grand kids will look back at the time in which the internet wasn't censored and think "wow, that would have been cool to be able to say anything you like" likely on about the same bandwidth for 5x the price

Nah, they'll be like "Wow, grandpa had no idea what net neutrality actually was."

You mean to tell me government regulation can lead to bad things. I'm shocked !

We need a conspiracy theory. Comcast is purposely limiting bandwidth to FFXI servers in order for gamers to play WoW.

I'll see your:



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