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You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the sound-off dept.

canopic jug writes:

U.S. citizens and residents have one day left to comment on the FCC's plan to kill net neutrality. Final comments are due tomorrow Wednesday, August 30th, by end-of-day Eastern time (UTC -5).

Once the comment period closes, the FCC is supposed to review the feedback and use it as guidance to revise its proposal. However, it probably won't hurt to also contact your congressional representatives, given the antagonism of the FCC's current leadership towards both the public input and net neutrality itself.

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  • (Score: 2) by WillR on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:19PM (1 child)

    by WillR (2012) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:19PM (#561146)

    There's plenty of competition among regional wireline ISPs

    There is? I see a little competition is between the cable monopoly and the phone monopoly, but that's hardly "plenty". And there's no competition at all if you want more than about 25mbit service, because the phone monopoly's wires suck.

    and national mobile broadband providers

    Mobile broadband: if you liked our 1000GB/month data caps on cable, you're gonna love our 10GB/month caps on mobile a hundred times as much!

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @05:02PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @05:02PM (#561575) Journal

    There is? I see a little competition is between the cable monopoly and the phone monopoly, but that's hardly "plenty". And there's no competition at all if you want more than about 25mbit service, because the phone monopoly's wires suck.

    I'm getting 75mbps symmetric from the phone monopoly right now. Verizon FIOS FTW! :)

    My only other option here is Cox, and they're pretty atrocious. The ONLY reason to go with Cox is if you expect you'll be unable to pay your bill at some point shortly after signing up, because Verizon would then hit you with a big early termination fee too. But after two years the contract expires and they've upgraded my service twice since then without me paying a dime more...I was on 25/25 when I first signed up. Pricing is identical between the two...every time one changes their rates, the other immediately alters theirs to match...