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Bernie Sanders Vows to Break up Huge ISPs and Regulate Broadband Prices

posted by martyb on Monday December 09 2019, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the snowballs-chance dept.

Freeman writes:

Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday released a plan to overhaul the US broadband market by breaking up giant providers, outlawing data caps, regulating broadband prices, and providing $150 billion to build publicly owned networks.

[...]Sanders said he would "eliminate data caps and ban throttling" and "instruct the FCC to regulate broadband Internet rates so households and small businesses are connected affordably." This would include a requirement "that all Internet service providers offer a Basic Internet Plan that provides quality broadband speeds at an affordable price."

[...]Sanders' $150 billion proposal includes a Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Service program "to provide capital funding to connect all remote rural households and businesses and upgrade outdated technology and infrastructure, prioritizing funding for existing co-ops and small rural utilities." Sanders said that $7.5 billion should be set aside for tribal areas and that all public housing should provide free broadband to residents.

[...]Sanders also wants the FCC to define broadband as a minimum of 100Mbps download speeds and 10Mbps uploads, instead of the current 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. Sanders would also "reinstate and expand privacy protection rules," reversing the Trump-era decision to eliminate broadband-privacy rules.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/bernie-sanders-vows-to-break-up-huge-isps-and-regulate-broadband-prices/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @08:42PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @08:42PM (#930225)

    Shortages of internet access. The thing with price controls placed on it. Man the education system sucks.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:43AM (#930382)

    Shortages of internet access. The thing with price controls placed on it. Man the education system sucks.

    You're a little confused there, friend. We have big swathes of the country that have no decent broadband right now. How is expanding that access going to cause *more* shortages?

    Or are you just uninformed because you spend all your time playing Ms. Pac Man at the arcade at the strip mall up your ass?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:52AM (#930387)

      Sorry, but you don't seem capable of understanding that no one claimed there was a current lack of shortages and price controls.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:53AM (#930388)

    Man the education system sucks.

    And how! Your reading comprehension is awful.

    I said:

    The only things there are shortages of is honest competition, broad-based deployment and municipal broadband.

    Moron.