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What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality
blottsie writes If there are two ways in which the Internet is similar in the United States and Canada, it's that it's slow and expensive in both places relative to many developed countries. The big difference, however, is that Canada is looking into doing something about it. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission—the northern equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)— is examining how the wholesale market, where smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) use parts of bigger companies' networks to sell their own services, should operate in the years ahead. The industry reaction to this proposal provides insights to the potential consequences of re-classifying broadband in the U.S. as a Title II public utility.
No posting on Slashdot about Net Neutrality without including what you think Net Neutrality is.
It is many things to many people. Most wrong.
What is it? I don't know. Tell me.
Yes, it will totally be better for 10 ISPs to decide which web sites will work properly or even be accessible by their customers.
"Hi. Would you like to sign up for turbo-speed AT&T Internet? Yes we have AT&T Facebook. Sorry, there is no AT&T Youtube, but we are working with Google to bring it to you soon."
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The US of A was the world's first nation in implementing broadband, to pave the road for the "Information Highway". That was a few decades ago
Now, the US of A trails behind Korea, Japan, Estonia, and a few other countries in the availability of TRUE BROADBAND that is affordable for the masses
The US consumer not only have to pay through their noses for broadband, and what they got are miserably slow, in compared with what the Koreans (for example) are getting
US of A should learn from other countries to find out how to remedy and rectify the current pathetic situation
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !