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Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- catacombs 8y agoLiterally pay to play.
- time-domain0 8y agoBandwidth equivalent of Zuck's "free internet" (that's not the internet) for poor people in India. Conclusion: nearly all ISP's are dicks too.
- shard972 8y agoWhats the alternative? That poor people should be forced to pay for the same plans as those who use Terabytes a month in streaming? Why shouldn't someone who doesn't use Netflix religiously, stream video or torrent files endlessly get a cheaper plan?
- mcv 8y agoI'm all for the availability of cheaper plans, but this seems to be about ISPs getting broadband subsidies to provide people with less than broadband speeds.
- mizchief2 8y agoYes you pay more for better service. That is how every industry works.
- burfog 8y agoThe 1-number obsession is horrible. As a baseline, how about just 400 kilobits/second, but: symmetric, under 60 ms latency to 48 states, packet loss of less than 1% for any size packet when not exceeding 400 kilobits/second (to 48 states), latency that doesn't increase under load, and less than 5 hours of downtime per customer per year.