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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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:40PM
Interesting, indeed. Soon, there won't be any small ISP's, nor will there be a whole lot of non-big-corporation offerings. Everything that looks profitable will be bought out by the big corps, and only big corps will be able to afford the fast lanes. And, we're all screwed. Well, all but the big corporations.
I've probably mentioned that we elected the court fool. The fool isn't representing Americans at all. He's infatuated with rich bastards.