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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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:07AM (1 child)
To Comcast "increase customer choice" means "chose between different Comcast offerings."
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 16 2017, @01:09PM
Also, speaking with a Comcast customer service representative basically amounts to: "How may I help you get into a more costly plan today?" They have all sorts of promotions, tiers, bundles and incentives, but if all you want is basic internet access - that costs (today) about $65 per month. Any promotions you might get are short term "introductory rates" to higher priced plans with more services - services we've never found any value in, but when that introductory period is over, your rate is always jacked up even higher than the basic, unbundled internet.
Although, there was a period of some years where Comcast would actually give you internet service plus basic television for less than internet service alone, but those days seem to be past.
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