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> In that case the ISP isn't violating the contract and the customer wanting to spend %100 of their bandwidth talking to netflix for instance is the ISP's busin

> In that case the ISP isn't violating the contract and the customer wanting to spend %100 of their bandwidth talking to netflix for instance is the ISP's business too That's garbage. I don't need my ISP shaking down the content business to be able to put their own content up front while requiring payment from others for equal level treatment. Taxpayers built this infrastructure and there are still regional broadband monopolies all over the place. It's entirely anti-consumer. We built the damned thing in the first place with the agreement there would be sufficient service. Fact is, our service is lousy, even in many dense urban areas! We should stand up together and vote this anti-NN crap down, regardless of whether it takes 2 weeks or 2 years.

jnordwick 9y ago
Take a down vote for trying to shut down discussion.
em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
> "Taxpayers built this infrastructure" ARPANET became obsolete and made redundant by private backbone providers, and so was decommissioned in 1990.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  Taxpayers have done more than ARPANET. This is about the 1996 Telecom Act, and how the public has allowed private companies to acquire regional monopolies while using public resources.
rhino369 9y ago
>Taxpayers built this infrastructure and there are still regional broadband monopolies all over the place. Taxpayers building modern ISP infrastructure is a myth. Very little public money went to last mile ISPs. In fact, they are typically taxed fairly highly by local governments. Governments see ISPs are a money raising source not a place to spend money . There are still regional "telecom" companies like AT&T and Verizon, but they don't have monopolies over ISP service. In most areas its actually the cable company that has more customers.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  > Taxpayers building modern ISP infrastructure is a myth. The deregulatory 1996 Telecom Act included provisions for a particular level of broadband penetration and performance. Those provisions were not met. Instead, now we have an FCC trying to reclassify broadband to 10 Mbps. Look at the distribution of throughput speeds in the green image posted here [1]. ISPs haven't fulfill their end of the deal with regards to speeds, and the country is mostly covered by regional broadband monopolies. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-comcast-verizon-home-internet https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit...

jnordwick 9y ago

Take a down vote for trying to shut down discussion.

em3rgent0rdr 9y ago

> "Taxpayers built this infrastructure" ARPANET became obsolete and made redundant by private backbone providers, and so was decommissioned in 1990.

unityByFreedom 9y ago
Taxpayers have done more than ARPANET. This is about the 1996 Telecom Act, and how the public has allowed private companies to acquire regional monopolies while using public resources.

rhino369 9y ago

>Taxpayers built this infrastructure and there are still regional broadband monopolies all over the place. Taxpayers building modern ISP infrastructure is a myth. Very little public money went to last mile ISPs. In fact, they are typically taxed fairly highly by local governments. Governments see ISPs are a money raising source not a place to spend money . There are still regional "telecom" companies like AT&T and Verizon, but they don't have monopolies over ISP service. In most areas its actually the cable company that has more customers.

unityByFreedom 9y ago
> Taxpayers building modern ISP infrastructure is a myth. The deregulatory 1996 Telecom Act included provisions for a particular level of broadband penetration and performance. Those provisions were not met. Instead, now we have an FCC trying to reclassify broadband to 10 Mbps. Look at the distribution of throughput speeds in the green image posted here [1]. ISPs haven't fulfill their end of the deal with regards to speeds, and the country is mostly covered by regional broadband monopolies. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-comcast-verizon-home-internet https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit...