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> I think it is time to regulate the Internet. And before you all go ballistic on me, I mean the term "Internet". Then companies will just invent their own te
by chimeracoder 11y ago
> I think it is time to regulate the Internet. And before you all go ballistic on me, I mean the term "Internet".
Then companies will just invent their own term that they will use instead of using the word "Internet".
We already see this with the term "broadband", which has a legal minimum speed (formerly 500 kbps, recently increased to 2.5 Mbps). Instead of increasing the speeds so they can continue using the word "broadband", we see hotels advertising "high-speed Internet" or "$ADJECTIVE-fast Internet".
- steve-howard 11y agoHotels might have a reasonably fast uplink but still cheap out on the wifi infrastructure. When reception tells me "the wifi works best in the lobby" I know what they're really saying is "management cheaped out and didn't want to buy the grade or quantity of hardware needed to deliver on promises."