FCC to forbid ISPs from slowing down internet traffic

[SSSnail]

This means your cable bill will go up like your phone an d cell phone bill do. When the cable companies are forced to build infrastructure where it makes little economic sense, and they loose money, the lobbyists will get the FCC to uses the same telecom laws that allows the FCC to set minimum prices. Montanna is going to get high speed access, and we'll all pay for it. Just like the "Obamaphones," look forward to new surcharges on cable bill to pay for highs speed Obamanets for the welfare class. When/if Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime become immensely popular, and providers can't charge more for the extra backbone and capacity, they are not going to invest in extra capacity without raising the rates on everyone, instead of the Netflix, et. a;, raising their prices.

And Comcast wasn't stopping Netflix. Comcast had a traffic agreement with L3. Then later, L3 got a Netflix contract and put stress on Comcast equipment with bloated bandwidth. Instead of paying Comcast extra, L3 reclassified themselves as a provider and tried to pretend Comcast was violating some sort of net neutrality principle.

If anyone thinks this is good for the for internet, I have a $800,000,000 government designed healthcare front end website to sell you.

What the fuck is this I don't even...

 

[PliotronX]

What the fuck is this I don't even...

It actually will cause prices to climb but probably not for the reasons he cited. The FCC has new powers and with it, they will be taxing which will be passed onto consumers or incurred directly.

 

[K1052]

It actually will cause prices to climb but probably not for the reasons he cited. The FCC has new powers and with it, they will be taxing which will be passed onto consumers or incurred directly.

They are explicitly prohibited from taxing internet connections by present US law.

 

[Zee]

yeah i dont know what the fuck he was typing.

That was just a lot of horseshit.

bottom line, prices will climb if there is no competition or if there is collusion.

 

[poofyhairguy]

It actually will cause prices to climb but probably not for the reasons he cited. The FCC has new powers and with it, they will be taxing which will be passed onto consumers or incurred directly.

Huh?