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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Utility Service program "to provide capital funding to connect all remote rural households and businesses and upgrade outdated technology and infrastructure, prioritizing funding for existing co-ops and small rural utilities."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.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jasassin on Monday December 09 2019, @11:04PM (3 children)
If you don't live in the US and you have 20 different ISP's to choose from, did you come here to brag? Did you come here to belittle the US unfortunate circumstances which they are in? Either way, your post makes you sound like an entitled douche.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday December 09 2019, @11:22PM
All right then. You're welcome.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:02AM (1 child)
I disagree. It's posts like that, remind me how horrid out telcos are. People in other countries spend about as much on internet as I do, and they get genuine service, no matter where they go. Others have posted that they can travel all over Europe (western and central, anyhow) and never lose connectivity. Here? FFS, it's not even a bad joke - our wireless doesn't cover half of our territory at the best of times. And, you can't drag an ethernet cable behind you when you go shopping, or whatever.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Tuesday December 10 2019, @06:54AM
It's all relative, here in Canada, our internet makes yours look cheap and fast. Our ISP's are very profitable though.