Internet Service News (US ISPs are bad and should feel bad)

[notorious bum]

HD Broadband, coming soon!

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Again, this concerns companies that receive Last Mile funding from the FCC. If they don't participate they can sell you hot steaming dog poo and call it Broadband. The spin that its because people will choose other ISPs purely because of the connection title is pure shit. 3/4 of rural areas (where going from 6/1 to 25/3 is Kind Of A Big Deal) only have 1-2 ISP options to choose from unlike metro areas who tend to enjoy a plethora of options and speeds STARTING at 25/3 and going to wetwired gigabit+.

[kuronosan]

I dunno, I live in a metro and we don't have those magical 25/3 options.

[Serra]

So I've only read three articles on this, but so far I haven't seen anything about companies calling it something else. For instance, couldn't your ISP not call it broadband and just call it highspeed internet? Most people probably aren't going to know about the change and likely won't care that much..

[kuronosan]

Well that's the whole point. They'll just make new packages and call the old ones high speed internet.

[Melena]

I live in the bay area and in my apartment I get either comcast which I'm getting 125 down but have to put up with their gid awful customer service, or I could go to AT&T uverse where they can't even guarantee 1mb down lol

[Salodin]

Uverse tv rocks though, as does their dvr system. If you download or stream everything it's nbd, but sometimes I like not having to track down and download a recent torrent.

[Qalbert]

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/02/its-on...oadband_911894

The Federal Communications Commission plans to reclassify broadband internet providers so they can’t favor some websites over others, which is the outcome that has been urged by net neutrality advocates, and which would amount to a victory for the open internet.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has yet to release a formal copy of the new rules, which must be circulated to other Commissioners three weeks before a scheduled vote on February 26, but the details have been leaked to the Wall Street Journal. They include a call for so-called Title II reclassification, which would mean a ban on internet “fast lanes”

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/02/fcc-ma...ock-broadband/

State laws that obstruct towns and cities from building their own broadband networks are likely to fall at the end of the month, as a result of an upcoming vote by the FCC slated for a public meeting on February 26.

“After looking carefully at petitions by two community broadband providers asking the FCC to pre-empt provisions of state laws preventing expansion of their very successful networks, I recommend approval by the Commission so that these two forward-thinking cities can serve the many citizens clamoring for a better broadband future,” said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in statement on Monday.

[Pirian]

Holy shit, really?



in before the FCC leaked this to get advocates to shut the fuck up before the coming vote and then vote the opposite and say "we never said we were going to do it"

[arus2001]

/crossedfingers

[Tyche]

Tom Wheeler has been the most pleasant of surprises. It's almost like Obama knew what the fuck he was doing by giving him the job. What a troll job it must have been for cable companies.

[Serra]

And now we wait for Congress to pass legislation that fucks it all up..

[Salodin]

And now we wait for Congress to pass legislation that fucks it all up..

Emergency midnight-backdoor sessions to prevent this from happening. I guarantee it.

[archibaldcrane]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...80/373/03a.jpg.

[Talint]

Not so fast:

AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality

"I have no illusions that any of this will change what happens on February 26," when the FCC is expected to vote, AT&T Federal Regulatory VP Hank Hultquist wrote in a blog post yesterday. "But when the FCC has to defend reclassification before an appellate court, it will have to grapple with these and other arguments. Those who oppose efforts at compromise because they assume Title II rests on bullet proof legal theories are only deceiving themselves."

[Tyche]

Not so fast:

AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality

I don't think it was reasonable to not expect telecoms to sue.

[The Blackrose]

Considering this started over a Verizon lawsuit, AT&T really should back away from the cliff right now.

[Gokku]

they are gonna get fucked in court if they press this didnt at&t start the internet throttling trend with cellphones and shit when iphone came out i know my friends apart of a lawsuit because of it.

[kuronosan]

AT&T should just quit while they're ahead. They're already on thin ice with Verizon, hoping that selling people mounds of shit will stick when the general public is already wising up to that garbage.

Case in point - they sent me an e-mail a few days back telling me I can save $5 a month by upgrading my speed to the fastest available - 18mbps (reminder to those not following, I pay about $180/mo for 12mbps). I promptly deleted the e-mail and am waiting for Google to schedule my 1000mbps internet this Spring.

The overall idea here is that these companies are doing whatever they can to drum up dumb-support for archaic business practices. I will laugh when it blows up in their faces and will likely cry and bash my head on my desk if they succeed.

[Serra]

Well, you know, people don't really want fast internet, we just think we do!

During the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Wednesday, Esteves said only a sliver of TWC’s customer base subscribes to the ISP’s top-tier Internet speeds (50 mbps down for $75). "We just don't see the need of delivering that [gigabit Ethernet] to consumers,” Esteves said

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20295...exec-says.html

(There was a better story I wanted to post, but I couldn't find it..)