The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
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The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
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#2The thing that is actually missing from this entire essay is competition.
The biggest single reason why the USA's (and to a lesser extent Canada's) internet is shite is because of the monopolies that exist.
In the EU there are similar offers for "enhanced" access, but its not speeding up/slowing down apps, but giving "free" access, as in not counting to your data cap.
Instead of making the FCC stop fast lanes, the FCC should either be breaking up infrastructure from retailers (ie allowing regulated priced access like openreach) or splitting up operators and fining ones that dont provide proper access.
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#3“The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority”
This needs to be controlled by congress. Directly.
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#4ISPs are desperate to be part of the monetary exchange of services over their infrastructure, they've been trying to become more than "dumb pipes" for decades and virtually no one wants that. Imagine if the water company could charge you more for a glass of water than a toilet flush.
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#5We need neutrality up and down the stack elsewhere too. I would consider hosting (including DNS, cloud infrastructure), financial services (banks, PayPal, stripe), and others as needing their version of net neutrality laws, where they cannot refuse customers or treat them differently or pick winners/losers or charge differently for different use cases. These are all utilities that are necessary to survive in today’s societies, and therefore they must be treated as if they were publicly run, through the power of regulations.
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#6For anyone confused by the headline, this has nothing to do with 5G conspiracy theories: it's about net neutrality.
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#7“The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority” This needs to be controlled by congress. Directly.
The thing about administrative government is that you free up congress by allowing them to approve the creation of administrative bodies. It was pretty much the only good thing President Wilson did, help create the administrative state. FCC already HAS the authority designated by Congress. This is about choosing to use it.
Re: The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
#8The thing that is actually missing from this entire essay is competition. The biggest single reason why the USA's (and to a lesser extent Canada's) internet is shite is because of the monopolies that exist. In the EU there are similar offers for "enhanced" access, but its not speeding up/slowing down apps, but giving "free" access, as in not counting to your data cap. Instead of making the FCC stop fast lanes, the FC…
I think there is limited room for competition in many of these categories. For example, the infrastructure costs for telecoms make it very difficult for new competition (like a startup) to enter the market. The existing ones benefited from past funding and a lack of competition, but have captured market share. In some cases, there are other practical limitations, for example, splitting up wireless spectrum. Apart from Starlink I’m not sure there can be viable alternatives in this space
Re: The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
#9“The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority” This needs to be controlled by congress. Directly.
The thing about administrative government is that you free up congress by allowing them to approve the creation of administrative bodies. It was pretty much the only good thing President Wilson did, help create the administrative state. FCC already HAS the authority designated by Congress. This is about choosing to use it.
I think he means we need this to specifically is important enough to society that it should be a matter of law, so it doesn’t change every administration due to people like Ajit Pai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai) coming into FCC positions
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#10My views on this have changed over time. More and more it seems like policy people encroaching on technical decisions without fully understanding the rationale behind them. Is there a good reason to segment different types of content, such as for optimal network performance? Ultimately all wireless communications have to work within the bounds of physics no matter what the made up human laws say. If there's a limited amount of bandwidth you have to work with, does it make sense to waste all the bandwidth on streaming HD videos and block off all the other traffic in the name of "neutrality"?
I would understand if there's some profit motive behind this, but I'm not seeing it.