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ISPs want it all the ways. It's such a vital telecommunication service that the government should give them subsidies to build out networks and provide subsidi

ISPs want it all the ways. It's such a vital telecommunication service that the government should give them subsidies to build out networks and provide subsidies to people with low incomes to purchase their services. But when it comes to regulation, they want to argue that they are no different than Gmail and that neither the states nor the FCC have any authority to impose basic common carrier rules. That's not even mentioning the oddness that for the sake of wiretapping, ISPs are considered common carriers subject to CALEA and, like phone services, have to use equipment that complies with federally created specs that allow real-time wiretapping. But unfortunately the federal judiciary is on a campaign to undermine Congress and federal agencies, so we're at the point where the judiciary is saying that the Federal Communications Commission has no jurisdiction over the most important communication system ever invented despite Congress clearly giving it an authority to do so and providing a framework.

2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
The govt stepped in and broke up Ma Bell only for the megacorps to stratify the internet the next level higher.
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aeonik 2y ago
I thought the ISPs already got 400 billion for expansion, they ended up keeping the money, and not following through. http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/ http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/
- linsomniac 2y ago
  Q.com has recently been going around our town laying fiber. This is CenturyLink. Back in 1995 I was working at QWest (now Century Link), and there was a neighborhood in West Omaha that was a trial for fiber to the home. QWest got a tariff increase approved, to pay for deploying fiber to the home for rural customers, by the year 2K. They never seemed, in any real way, to take steps toward that. In fact, in the later '90s they were actively NOT deploying fiber to DSLAMs in neighborhoods, to give good DSL, because doing so would allow CLECs to have access to put equipment in neighborhoods. So we all had to suffer with whatever DSL we could get on cable runs that went back to one of two switch buildings serving the town. Now, 30 years later, they're finally laying fiber. This is after the city is just finishing up laying their own fiber lines to every home and business in town, and I'm imagining that is partly responsible for the telco upgrades.

2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago

The govt stepped in and broke up Ma Bell only for the megacorps to stratify the internet the next level higher.

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aeonik 2y ago

I thought the ISPs already got 400 billion for expansion, they ended up keeping the money, and not following through. http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/ http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/

linsomniac 2y ago
Q.com has recently been going around our town laying fiber. This is CenturyLink. Back in 1995 I was working at QWest (now Century Link), and there was a neighborhood in West Omaha that was a trial for fiber to the home. QWest got a tariff increase approved, to pay for deploying fiber to the home for rural customers, by the year 2K. They never seemed, in any real way, to take steps toward that. In fact, in the later '90s they were actively NOT deploying fiber to DSLAMs in neighborhoods, to give good DSL, because doing so would allow CLECs to have access to put equipment in neighborhoods. So we all had to suffer with whatever DSL we could get on cable runs that went back to one of two switch buildings serving the town. Now, 30 years later, they're finally laying fiber. This is after the city is just finishing up laying their own fiber lines to every home and business in town, and I'm imagining that is partly responsible for the telco upgrades.