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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-neutrality-no-data dept.

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With days to go before his repeal of net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a press release about five small ISPs that he says were harmed by the rules. Pai "held a series of telephone calls with small Internet service providers across the country—from Oklahoma to Ohio, from Montana to Minnesota," his press release said.

[...] But Pai's announcement offered no data to support this assertion. So advocacy group Free Press looked at the FCC's broadband deployment data for these companies and found that four of them had expanded into new territory. The fifth didn't expand into new areas but it did start offering gigabit Internet service.

[...] According to the ISPs' ex parte filings, the only FCC staffers who participated in Pai's meetings with the ISPs were his spokespeople. The absence of staffers involved in research or policy, combined with the timing of the calls and Pai's press release, suggest that "these meetings occurred for the sake of managing public appearances rather than obtaining meaningful record evidence," Wood wrote.

Source: Ajit Pai offers no data for latest claim that net neutrality hurt small ISPs


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:15PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:15PM (#609844)

    they don't need to do anything the democrats thought was necessary. they are using their majority period. discussion just wastes time. if there is something that helps, great. otherwise its all irrelevant, fake, or desperation.

    at least he hasnt called the consumers a bundle of deplorables; that'll be the offers we get from the ISPs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:18PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:18PM (#609845)

    and that's a wrap

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/security-problem-disrupts-fcc-vote-to-kill-net-neutrality-rules/ [arstechnica.com]

    still despite the warnings, they voted it in anyway. i guess its a matter of time then

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:30PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:30PM (#609851)

      Hoping the judges help, but that's far from a given.

      Completely unrelated, but let's pretend it's not: SN fells slow the last few days.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:06PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:06PM (#609873) Homepage Journal

      They call it a security problem. It was a BOMB THREAT from ISIS. A strike at the heart of our government, our great FCC. Let me tell you, we have made tremendous strides at getting rid of ISIS. We have generals that don’t like to talk. They like to do. We were with general Mattis last night. The success they’ve had against ISIS extraordinary. We’ve made more progress in a few months than the previous administration made in eight years. Then we have to see what we have to see. I will tell you, ISIS in Syria, ISIS in Iraq, ISIS in other locations, we’ve made tremendous strides. But we have a lot, a lot of kids watching the Internet who want to be masterminds. This so-called leader of ISIS, he’s not a mastermind, he’s a punk. They ought to call him what he is. He’s garbage. The press should not be referring to these guys as masterminds. Then they wonder how all these kids are going and joining ISIS. They’re building these people up so much, we have to tear them down. These are not masterminds. These people are animals. And they're recruiting our kids from the Internet. We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. In China, they don't have a problem with ISIS. Because they built a wall around their Internet. They closed up their Internet. You want to get on their Internet, you have to play by their rules. And you have to pay.

      This vote today is a tremendous thing. Because it lets us begin to close up our Internet. Lets us put a wall around our Internet. So when ISIS wants to recruit our kids, they have to pay. The ISIS sites have to pay to get their message out. We're building a wall and ISIS is going to pay for it. Fabulous! 🇺🇸