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FCC Report Claims Broken Broadband Market Has Been Fixed By Killing Net Neutrality (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The FCC has released a new report falsely claiming that the agency's attack on net neutrality is already paying huge dividends when it comes to sector investment and competition. Unfortunately for the FCC, the data the agency is relying on to "prove" this claim comes from before current FCC boss Ajit Pai even took office and doesn't remotely support that conclusion. The Trump FCC's latest broadband deployment report [concludes] that "advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion." That claim comes despite the fact that this same data also shows that two thirds of U.S. homes lack access to 25 Mbps broadband from more than one ISP, resulting in numerous broadband monopolies in markets nationwide.
An accompanying press release goes on to claim that "steps taken last year have restored progress by removing barriers to infrastructure investment, promoting competition, and restoring the longstanding bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework for broadband that had been reversed by the Title II Order." The FCC has repeatedly tried to claim that the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules devastated sector investment -- despite the fact this is easily disproved by ISP earnings reports, SEC filings, and numerous CEO statements to investors. That hasn't stopped this FCC from repeating this claim anyway, apparently hoping that repetition forges reality. "The problem: these deployments aren't new, and industry watchers note that they all technically began under the oversight of the previous FCC," Motherboard concludes. "All of the examples provided by the agency cite deployments that predominantly occurred in 2017 as the result of obligations attached to mergers or subsidies under the previous Tom Wheeler-run FCC."
An accompanying press release goes on to claim that "steps taken last year have restored progress by removing barriers to infrastructure investment, promoting competition, and restoring the longstanding bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework for broadband that had been reversed by the Title II Order." The FCC has repeatedly tried to claim that the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules devastated sector investment -- despite the fact this is easily disproved by ISP earnings reports, SEC filings, and numerous CEO statements to investors. That hasn't stopped this FCC from repeating this claim anyway, apparently hoping that repetition forges reality. "The problem: these deployments aren't new, and industry watchers note that they all technically began under the oversight of the previous FCC," Motherboard concludes. "All of the examples provided by the agency cite deployments that predominantly occurred in 2017 as the result of obligations attached to mergers or subsidies under the previous Tom Wheeler-run FCC."
Rewriting history was always the norm. Problem is, now we're trying to re-write the present.
Repeat the same crap often enough, and people will think its true.
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... the people in rural areas who are most negatively impacted by the lack of readily available broadband will fall for this.
Big Brother has increased broadband speeds from 25 mbps to 10 mbps! Hooray Big Brother!
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
...dog bites man. Wake me when there's really NEWS.
right? Show up for your primaries folks. Otherwise you'll have the same choice of Right wing corporate Dems and right wing Rs. Also, and I know this isn't a popular idea, but this _is_ a partisan issue. The Republicans are opposed to government regulation and want to leave the free market to decide (massive subsidies not withstanding) while the Ds, when they're not being actively bought off (again, show up at your primaries people) support government regulation with the aim of general societal improvements + correcting imbalances in the market. What I'm saying is, if you vote R you shouldn't be surprised when they don't want to regulate. They told you that in their party platform.
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So you're saying 25 Mbps ought to be enough for anyone?
Where have we heard that kind of thing before?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
By taking it away the FCC caused millions of last mile miles of fiber to be instantaneously laid to all the rest of the people in rural areas. Presto, magico!
Sadly this will allow for the spread of more fake news so the president wisely cut the cord.
Personally, I'm currently satisfied with my 950Mbps broadband. 100Mbps was starting to feel slow.
You don't need 25 Mbps, so nobody else does?
Even if that were so, how does that change Pai cherry-picking statistics from 2016 to somehow claim repealing NN in 2017 (which hasn't even taken affect yet) magically "fixed" the broadband industry? How does that change Pai claiming infrastructure investments ISPs announced years ago were somehow magically caused by him repealing NN years later?
This is Fake Report.
Personally, I'm currently satisfied with my 950Mbps broadband. 100Mbps was starting to feel slow.
Dude, I'd like to see the porn you're watching.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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>> falsely claiming that the agency's attack on net neutrality is already paying huge dividends
It probably really is already paying huge dividends, just exclusively to the board and shareholders, not the customers.
What you ignore is the fact that communities will not be allowed to start community isps now.
Network neutrality never prented it either. It is the big isps and short-sighted local governments combined with a LACK of federal oversight that have always made it difficult for cities and towns to have their own providers.
This situation can only get worse without network neutrality.
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Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Current FCC policy is paying Yuge dividends, Yuge I tells ya!
In fact, under Obama, zombies were walking the streets, killing and raping. Mexican zombies! With Me and Pai, honeysuckle grows in verdant groves, fountains gush with mead, and bluebirds sing the national anthem.
Can I tell you how I squashed the Dictator of Darkest Korea? Or how I personally defeated ISIS? My policies are single-handedly responsible for bringing down the Imams of Iran!!!
And black people love me! There are so many black people who are employed now who just love me!
If you tell a lie often enough, gullible people will believe it.
Meanwhile, in a court of law, you'll get sued by the attorney generals of the states that know you're lying about broadband and competition. Because they deal in facts.
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Whoosh.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
When the broadband companies took all those federal subsidies to increase Internet broadband, they used their own "creative" definition of what broadband Internet should be and dumped all that money into cell service. My guess is whenever they talk about Internet service, they're still counting stupid phone data availability.
Ahuxley.
You have it wrong.
The isps (small or large) did not have to "prove" that they are supporting neutrality in their infrastructure. They simply have to not get caught violating it.
Network neutrality is less expensive as far as infrastructure and labor cost is concerned.
Implementing "fast lanes" is really the opposite- it is done by adding equipment (and the labor cost of implementing and maintenance) to RESTRICT bandwidth for slower, cheaper access.
And the loss of profit for NOT using that expensive, new equipment to slow down traffic for content providers and consumers.
25 M might be enough for a single person to watch some high def while doing a few other things. But you start to add in a partner and a couple of kids, that 25 starts to get really thin.
Further proof of God's favor is when cabana boy rand announced how a secretary was so pleased about the recent tax package, because her paycheck increased by a little over a dollar a week. Winning baby - this is it. Vote Republican and get an extra coffee at Starbucks once a month!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
"Hey, we fixed broad band by allowing Cable companies to filter your network traffic....oh, and we redefined what broad band means by saying anything over 5 Mbps is broad band....yay merica! All hail Fuck Face Pai."
Who would pull Ajit Pai back from the street if he was about to get hit by a bus?
Anyone interested in this topic needs to read the actual report. There the FCC goes through the numbers behind its conclusions and the legal requirements that it faces when going about its analysis.
But more importantly, the FCC report simply doesn't come to the conclusion that Slashdot reports here. In fact it explicitly says that there is more progress to be made, and that it was a lot more than Network Neutrality stuff going on last year.
The report is a fine report that we should be able to get behind, as it promotes efforts to expand Broadband to more people.
Missreporting like this is not helpful.
Here's a link to the report:
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_pub...
If you read the report, it goes through times when it's including cell data and times when it's not. It also lays out exactly why it's making those two choices as required by the laws that tell the FCC what to do.
It's all spelled out in the report.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_pub...
Man promoted by liar turns out to be a liar. Wow.
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Egads I feel dumber reading those "news" articles, and even dumber comparing them to the FCC release.
If you are having some issues with this summary, which any reasonable person would, go and compare them to the actual FCC release. While the FCC release is about the USA as a whole the news articles are almost entirely on the areas with the issues, and the quotes and numbers they use are from the FCC talking about those issues.
In this case the articles focus on remote indian land and conclude that since they don't have the same access to high speed internet that is available in Manhatten that the FCC report is a lie.
because the rural voters are a reliable source of votes for Republicans and, well, he's a Republican. Everything Ajit Pai (and his party) does is to further their own ends. Once in a blue moon those ends cross paths with someone besides themselves and their corporate masters. That shouldn't distract you from the overall fact that they're screwing us all over for profit.
Some things in life really are black and white. Fact are facts. I'll say it again, this _is_ a partisan issue. The sooner you realize that the better.
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Go read the actual report, the report does not say what is being reported here.
Also it is not Pai making the claims being quoted.