Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality

Post by mafuy » Sat, May 19, 2018, 5:59 AM UTC

rascul wrote: post #63

dragontamer wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The market conditions are set up for what is called a "natural monopoly". Its inefficient for new companies to build wires to an already wired up neighborhood. Companies therefore become de-facto monopolies on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. The exception are cities where a dense population of people can support additional carriers for sake of competition. But at a basic level, the economic conditions just make…

> as well as a few European countries who have adopted this scheme. Do you have examples of which countries that have implemented something similar? I recall reading about this in the past, and I would like to read more about it, but I can't think off the top of my head which countries I might have read about.

Germany has had this for a while. It works relatively well.

Post by bifrost » Mon, May 21, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

drawkbox wrote: post #108

bifrost wrote: post #42

Considering where this has been politically, this isn't going to change anything. And really all "killing" NN does is move this back to the FTC, where it was for a decade+

Internet is a utility now though and only the FCC can make network / internet a utility / common carrier. ISPs want it at the FTC for that reason, so it isn't seen as a utility, it is. Internet is as required as radio, phone, tv, water, electricity etc, it makes more sense under Title II and 80%+ of people support that. [1] > Americans embrace a Title II vision of internet service. A strong majority (88 percent, 48 p…

Its not a utility, thats the point. You can't truly compare it to electricity, water, etc. I understand why people want to, but its not.

Re: Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality

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