The FCC wants to level the playing field.

The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less::The Federal Communications Commission has passed new digital discrimination rules that hold telecom providers accountable for not providing equal internet access.

  • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    516·
    1 year ago

    Because the bigger problem is ownership of the infrastructure. Monopoly or not, one of the companies owns the line

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        1 year ago

        Even better, those cables were supposed to be replaced by the companies that own it using money from the government. Since they didn’t do that, might as well take the cables and money back and make it a public utility.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          We paid for them to upgrade that infrastructure to the tune of several billion, and those companies just lined their pockets instead. Fuck ‘em. We practically bought it at this point. That shit is basically ours.