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Comcast claims it’ll spend $50B because of net neutrality repeal and tax cut
- DLA 9y agoAnd then they'll raise prices yet again and continue to deliver horrible service, packages nobody wants, etc.
- downrightmike 9y agoSo when are we getting the fiber at our doors, that is a decade late, and we've already paid out billions for?
- ct0 9y agoAfter just the right amount of over paying and complaints.
- throwawaymanbot 9y agoThis sounds like kim Jong Ils PR teams' type of press release. Dear Leader... Comcast will spend $1 Trillion because of net neutrality repeal and tax cut. In fairness, they must be fainting from the amount of money they are going to rake in, after tacking it on to the the average users bill to get access by the MB to non toll road websites.
- Isamu 9y agoThese claims are an important follow-on to claims made by the FCC that ISPs were holding back on investment because of net neutrality, therefore it had to be repealed. So this is a way of publicly backing up the FCC, and heading off possible independent action by congress. It's a kind of theater ... what if they never got it repealed? So they would never re-invest in their business?
- Isamu 9y agoI guess it makes sense if you read it as: we have this money that now we can spend on schemes that violate net neutrality and shake down businesses that cross our path!
- emiliobumachar 9y agoSeems to fit: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/01/03/trump-and-the-batman-effect/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/01/03/trump-and-the-batman-ef... "When US companies do something that sounds good in the next few years, whether it’s hiring new people, or deciding to stay in the United States, or reporting high profits, some of them are going to credit President Trump. First, because it’s going to get them good press. “Ford decides not to build plant in Mexico” is tenth-page news. “Ford decides not to build plant in Mexico because of President Trump” is front-page news. But second, because it’s going to make the President like them."
- sjg007 9y agoSure, but they will also raise prices and charge for fast lanes to make up that spending and more.