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In a vote on the morning of Thursday, February 26, the FCC has approved Net Neutrality.
In a story on Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/fcc-votes-for-net-neutrality-a-ban-on-paid-fast-lanes-and-title-ii/) the FCC has voted to approve Net Neutrality and reclassify fixed and mobile broadband services under Title II as telecommunications services. As expected, the vote was along party lines.
It is expected that Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and others will sue to overturn the decision.
What say you Soylentils, is the reclassification of these services under Title II a good thing?
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BREAKING - FCC Approves Net Neutrality
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 26 2015, @11:00PM
Yes, indeed, the telecoms have been given monopolistic powers. How many cities, counties, and/or states have attempted to build their own infrastructure, because the telcos refused to build infrastructure? I have never attempted to count them, but they are numerous. And - what happened in MOST cases?
The telcos went to court, and had those attempts blocked because the telcos MIGHT, one day, see enough potential profit to open a market that was not being served.
If that isn't "monopolistic", then I don't know what it is.