Net-neut Ping
It’s a trap. Net neutrality is just another way for the government to get its finger into the pie while pretending to protect joe citizen from evil corporations.
Oh wait, that isn't happening...
I wonder why?
Most people have 2 choices, and if they are lucky 3. Even if you have 4, that is definitionally an oligopoly. You don’t get good competitive results in those situations.. I have two choices, Comcast, and AT&T DSL. If I want more than ~7mbps, my only choice is Comcast. They can do almost anything, including block Netflix or Youtube, and I’d probably stick with them instead of downgrading to AT&T. That gives them tremendous power to extort Netflix and YouTube, and any up and coming entrepreneur.
And even as they struggle to control the internet, the antinet, the othernet and the undernet are thriving. The cybernetic underground is picking up steam and innovating at a rapid pace because of their intrusive, heavy-handed tactics. And it’s so below their conventional radar that they can’t even detect it.
Yeah, we have all of one or two around here(depending on your location - none), unless you like dialup....
Well put.
T-Mobile recently started a new practice of buying out people’s remaining contracts with other vendors, basically analogous to those “slamming” wars between long distance providers twenty or so years ago, back when long distance service was debundled by the courts and profitable. Now long distance service is nearly meaningless, almost like complimentary continental breakfast.
Toll-free numbers went through a massive boom over ten years ago, to the point where 888, and then 866, area codes had to be added in. Now, mobile phone plans treat long distance numbers with, uh, neutrality, which will put pressure on toll-free vendors, i.e., land line companies, at a time when they really don’t need any more pressure. :’)