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Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life

Posted by timothy on from the just-want-to-seek-some-of-the-same-rents dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from BGR: What's every incumbent ISP's worst nightmare? If we had to guess, it looks something like the filing that Google just made with the Federal Communications Commission. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Google this week told the FCC that reclassifying broadband providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act would have a big side benefit for Google Fiber because it would give Google Fiber the same access to utility poles and other key infrastructure currently enjoyed by Comcast, AT&T and other big-name ISPs.

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  1. Re:One fiber to rule them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Net Neutrality means that the traffic comes through unimpeded, not everyone gets the same. If Aunt Marry doesn't want Netflix then she can keep 1.5MBit, if she wants to use Netflix she'll have to buy 4 to 5Mbit minimum service to use it. Netflix doesn't force bandwidth on people, nor would they pay to get it to Marry.

    Someone who pays for 20Mbit, gets close to 20Mbit someone who pays for 40Mbit gets close to 40Mbit.

    It's how each user chooses to use their XXMbit bandwidth that is the focus of net neutrality. Preventing AT&T or Verizon from throttling Netflix or VOIP services to eek out more money.