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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-don't-need-no-stinkin-rules dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Broadband providers made it clear this week: they wholeheartedly support net neutrality... but they want to overturn those pesky net neutrality rules and replace them with something that isn't so strict.

In fact, the way to truly protect net neutrality is to keep the Internet free of regulations, Internet provider CenturyLink wrote. "Keep the Internet Open and Free—Without Regulation" was the title of CenturyLink's blog post Wednesday.

"Reversing the FCC's 2015 Internet regulation order will do several positive things: Increase customer choice, spur innovation and investment, [and] create lasting consumer and competitive protections," CenturyLink wrote.

Comcast, meanwhile, accused net neutrality supporters of "creat[ing] hysteria."

This was part of a flurry of activity by ISPs and broadband lobby groups in response to yesterday's "Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality," a protest of the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband and eliminate or replace net neutrality rules. All of the ISPs and lobby groups claimed to support net neutrality even though they have fought against the FCC's attempts to enforce rules against blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization.

The Day of Action resulted in more than 3.4 million e-mails to Congress and more than 1.6 million comments to the FCC, protest organizer Fight for the Future said yesterday. "More than 125,000 websites, people, artists, online creators, and organizations" signed up to participate in the protest, the group said.

The net neutrality docket now has 7.3 million comments.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 16 2017, @01:04PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday July 16 2017, @01:04PM (#539882)

    In the early dialup days, technically inclined guys ran ISPs out of their garages, would scale up to about 100 to 1000 subscribers and get bought/consolidated into larger more professionally equipped operations. The system had pluses and some big minuses, but the key was that the ISPs were independent of the physical lines, they just sold service over the toll-free local calling lines. My, and many of my friends' experience was that we would cycle through about 3 or 4 providers before we found a decent one, that would run a couple of years, they'd get bought, service would generally suffer after the acquisition and the search would start over.

    In my case, my "good" dialup ISP carried me all the way to when broadband was starting to become available, the big difference with broadband was that the service providers also owned the physical infrastructure. Our choices were the local phone company with DSL and the cable company with essentially ethernet over coax - in the early days, DSL was out-performing the cable, not because the wires were better, but because the phone company ran better switching systems - the cable companies really didn't have a clue about the technical side of the business. Finally, about 10 years later (in our neighborhoods), the physical advantages of the coax started to win out as cable companies sort of figured out how to use them properly. But, still, we're stuck with cable minded "bundles" and "introductory periods" and "tiered service" that really isn't tiered at all - when we paid for the "super blast" or whatever the hell high tier service, it was just as flaky and unreliable as basic service, they just turned the throttling on our connection up a little - in fact, reliability actually seemed to go down for the premium service.

    We've got a problem that the last mile wiring quality is still not a reliable commodity, and I'm sure the incumbents know that they have to keep it that way unless they want the municipalities to step in and take over the infrastructure and put ISPs back in competition with each other, the way it was in the "good old days" of dialup.

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