This is basically just a war over who pays for the HD video that is already hogging all the bandwidth and will soon overwhelm capacity. Obviously shitheads watching Netflix all day should pay more for internet usage than my grandma who does nothing but check her AOL email. This concept is tyranny or something according to liberals. There's no way ISPs start getting into the minutiae of low bandwidth site access speed which is what's actually important about the internet and what liars are pretending the issue is.
That said I do hope these disgusting cable companies get obliterated because it's impossible to justify their business practices or profits. They lied and bribed their way into local monopolies and then started raping customers without lube. This industry is a perfectly sickening example of typical modern era business.
You should move to Portugal or the UK. You can pay extra there to access sites like Facebook and Youtube. You can buy social media bundles and video bundles, in addition to what you're already paying for internet access. Make extortion great again. Guyz, you don't have to follow the Trumpster on everything. Sometims he's wrong. Getting rid of net neutrality was the private vendetta of one of his retarded monkey henchman. Just like getting rid of weed is the vendetta of another of his stupid henchman. These people are certifiable idiots, and should have been fired from their posts a long time ago.
OBK and I agree. And troomps that follow the Trump corporate line are awesome.
OBK is the poster child of WTGWT. He shares the same dumb line of reasoning as *gasp* Bernie/Hillary supporters. Luckily Trump is a lot smarter than most of the idiots that vote and I thank him for his service.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
Verizon and Google both gave up on expanding their fiber networks in the past few years because it was too expensive. Giving Comcast another cock to rape their customers with isn't going to change that.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
Verizon and Google both gave up on expanding their fiber networks in the past few years because it was too expensive. Giving Comcast another cock to rape their customers with isn't going to change that.
I'm hearing bandwidth isn't finite, like water or electricity. Shouldn't be a problem then.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
As is this wont promote competition. It just will expand the existing oligopoly. The electric utility industry is already decades ahead of the internet in trying to create competitive market structures. The US has competitive electricity markets but the crux is that the transmission and distribution system are operated by a non-profit third party entity called and ISO or RTO. If you really wanted competion between ISPs a similar structure would have so be set up otherwise barriers to entry are too high.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
As is this wont promote competition. It just will expand the existing oligopoly. The electric utility industry is already decades ahead of the internet in trying to create competitive market structures. The US has competitive electricity markets but the crux is that the transmission and distribution system are operated by a non-profit third party entity called and ISO or RTO. If you really wanted competion between ISPs a similar structure would have so be set up otherwise barriers to entry are too high.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
As is this wont promote competition. It just will expand the existing oligopoly. The electric utility industry is already decades ahead of the internet in trying to create competitive market structures. The US has competitive electricity markets but the crux is that the transmission and distribution system are operated by a non-profit third party entity called and ISO or RTO. If you really wanted competion between ISPs a similar structure would have so be set up otherwise barriers to entry are too high.
So let's get it done
I'm interested in the local loop unbundeling approach which is what is used in the UK but you have to force ISP to relinquish control over some of their infrastructure. It was already attempted at one point in the US in the 90s and failed but whatever maybe it would work better this time around.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
As is this wont promote competition. It just will expand the existing oligopoly. The electric utility industry is already decades ahead of the internet in trying to create competitive market structures. The US has competitive electricity markets but the crux is that the transmission and distribution system are operated by a non-profit third party entity called and ISO or RTO. If you really wanted competion between ISPs a similar structure would have so be set up otherwise barriers to entry are too high.
If this was actually about introducing more competition, the ISPs wouldn't be lobbying in favor of it. HTH
Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
As is this wont promote competition. It just will expand the existing oligopoly. The electric utility industry is already decades ahead of the internet in trying to create competitive market structures. The US has competitive electricity markets but the crux is that the transmission and distribution system are operated by a non-profit third party entity called and ISO or RTO. If you really wanted competion between ISPs a similar structure would have so be set up otherwise barriers to entry are too high.
So let's get it done
I'm interested in the local loop unbundeling approach which is what is used in the UK but you have to force ISP to relinquish control over some of their infrastructure. It was already attempted at one point in the US in the 90s and failed but whatever maybe it would work better this time around.
The internet is not a public utility and should not be treated as such.
You like to think that making it a government sanctioned monopoly will improve service levels and encourage competition. That's what you like to do. Commie.
It really is though, at least it should be. Landline telephones are a utility and one can easily argue that the internet is just as vital and has a much wider scope than telephone service. It’s just another brick in the one corporation wall we are heading towards.
This thing isn’t what capitalism is supposed to be.
ISP's are much much more like utilities than private companies competing in a free market. Agreed that we need competition but this isn't the way that you are going to get it. I am biased in favor of free market solutions but there are very few ways to achieve an actual free market in this case. Laying new fiber in a location is prohibitive in a variety of ways and the existence of the current infrastructure often prohibits it completely. Until wireless catches up with cable you reasonably don't have a shot at real competition.
That’s the rub right there with this. The improvement of wireless delivery is where things are going. It doesn’t make sense to bury Billions of Dollars worth of fiber to bungfuck Egypt, when in the next few years you will be able to receive high speed internet wirelessly.
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Again I'm not saying that's what this is I am saying competition is the answer to every complaint in this thread
Getting rid of NN is a step not the finish
When companies see they can make money they invest.
And then there's this:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/ajit-pai-jokes-about-being-a-brainwashed-verizon-puppet-at-the-fcc/
Might be funny if it wasn't actually true. He really is a Verizon shill.
I still want to know why I don't have wireless competition. I said good bye to Comcast in 1999 when I got DirecTV
This thing isn’t what capitalism is supposed to be.
And I don’t like it.
Not one bit.