ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law

Post by Forgeties79 » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

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This is pretty tinfoil hat of me. I have this theory that many companies that are “competing” with each other in an area (Cox and AT&T for me) seem to be ceding areas to each other by upgrading certain sections and not others while avoiding overlap for long periods, functionally only giving buyers one choice. In New Orleans, Cox has offered “gigablast” (yes that’s what it’s called) Internet in some areas while AT&T o…

It’s not tinfoil at all, it’s just normal decision making. You have 10k customers (out of a possible 20k) - do you upgrade your lines where it would make you fastest by far, or do you upgrade your lines where you’d just be as fast? The second probably has fewer customers, the first will get you new customers.

Post by tenebrisalietum » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

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I'm not American, but I ran into this issue while discussing with some people living in the US (foreigners no less) and it's crazy how much they bought into the ISP propaganda. They're not stupid people, but they got convinced that they can't check their email because their neighbour is on Netflix and this is all Netflix's fault. When you hear the same argument repeated in the same way, it's always an indicator that…

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Post by jaywalk » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:14 PM UTC

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It may not have been fleeting by the dictionary definition of the word, but it definitely was by the way the rules are applied. I've worked in the broadcast industry and have had to deal directly with this subject, so I'm not just spouting nonsense here.

I've also worked in the broadcast industry; you are just spouting nonsense. You get fined for knowingly allowing several minute long continuous chants like that, and can get your license taken away. It wasn't fleeting in either the dictionary nor the regulatory sense.

Post by yywwbbn » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC

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> The US has some of the most expensive Internet access in the world. Really? Some highly developed countries have fairly expensive Internet as well. Not sure the US is much of an exception, if you consider not just the cheapest countries.

It's definitely expensive (2014 data): https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/internet-costs-compared... > the United States ranks second on the list of OECD countries, behind only Mexico, for most expensive internet prices > When we look at Europe as a whole, we can see that the United States pays more for broadband internet access than any other country on the continent; in fact, rates in the US are more than double…

Post by vel0city » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:18 PM UTC

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I remember a pretty ridiculous image going around that depicted a hypothetical Internet service package that was sold to you on a site by site basis, for instance you would pay $20 a month and have access to the top 100, another $10 for social media, and so forth. Given the length of time the Internet has been around, and a complete absence of any of these doom and gloom stories coming to pass despite no such regulat…