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Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP
theY4Kman writes "The Washington Post reinforces the grim situation on Net Neutrality and limited ISP choices faced by Americans: 'The FCC's research shows that 78 percent of American households have access to only two land-based broadband providers and that 13 percent have one. Don't expect that to improve. Many competing DSL services have left the market, spurred by the end of line-sharing in 2005 and other corporate consolidations. A few months ago, for instance, AT&T elected to close its WorldNet DSL service. Meanwhile, technologies that were once promoted as alternatives to phone and cable-based services have flopped. City-wide WiFi access ... turned out to be a business bust. The power-line broadband that then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell lauded as having "great promise" in 2004 fared no better: Last week, Manassas voted to unplug its pioneering service. ... We have a situation full of lawyerly jargon, with risks that can't be dramatized by putting a sick kid on a stage. I hope you like your Internet provider, because you may be stuck with it for a while.'"
How quickly we forget. Regulation created this mess; I highly doubt that regulation will be able fix this mess.
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There was an article a couple weeks ago about how lifting regulation sent more people into a market.
The FCC is actually unconstitutional.
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
As a pre-200kUID Slashdotter, you should be setting a better example than spouting fallacious analogies. Almost any political view lies somewhere between Democrat/Republican or Left/Right, so of course people are going to vote either D/R or somewhere in between. If there were some real competition amongst telco providers, you think people wouldn't choose their provider based on price/reliability? Next time, explain yourself and think with your head (not your ass) before throwing pointless links and logical fallacies at a community as famous for rational stimulation as we.
THIS, IS, [suspense-inducing neotheatrical pause], SLAAAASHDOTTTTT!!