Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US

xclr8r writes "Eric Massa, a congressman representing a district in western New York, has a bill ready that would start treating Internet providers like a utility and stop the use of caps. Nearby locales have been used as test beds for the new caps, so this may have made the constituents raise the issue with their representative."

Comments

Re:Has it occured to anyone else. . .

[Timothy Brownawell]

Gaming of a deregulated energy system by crooked companies like Enron played a major part in those rolling brown-outs.

Gaming a badly/partially deregulated system, which IIRC they were involved in determining the structure of the not-quite-deregulation (I think it was something like, fixed retail prices and deregulated wholesale prices, because they (incorrectly) predicted that wholesale prices would drop significantly). There were other states that did things properly and it worked fairly well, or at least didn't cause problems like in CA.

This article from 2006 indicate that deregulation doesn't actually lower prices like it "should", apparently because providers don't want to compete and don't bid to serve the same areas.

I'm sure there will be a loophole somewhere.

[falconwolf]

There always will be. The difference is that, with regulation, there is a loophole somewhere. With deregulation, there are loopholes everywhere.

With deregulation there are no loopholes, there are only loopholes when there are regulations.

Falcon