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FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband (vice.com)
Earlier this week, the FCC proclaimed that broadband connectivity saw unprecedented growth last year thanks to the agency's policies like killing net neutrality. But, as Motherboard points out, that's not entirely true. The lion's share of improvements highlighted by the agency "are courtesy of DOCSIS 3.1 cable upgrades, most of which began before Pai even took office and have nothing to do with FCC policy," the report says. "Others are likely courtesy of build-out conditions affixed to AT&T's merger with DirecTV, again the result of policies enacted before Pai was appointed head of the current FCC." Also, last year's FCC report, which showcased data up to late 2016, "showed equal and in some instances faster growth in rural broadband deployment -- despite Pai having not been appointed yet." From the report: The broadband industry's biggest issue remains a lack of competition. That lack of competition results in Americans paying some of the highest prices for broadband in the developed world, something the agency routinely fails to mention and does so again here. [...] Still, Pai was quick to take a victory lap in the agency release. "For the past two years, closing the digital divide has been the FCC's top priority," Pai said in a press release. "We've been tackling this problem by removing barriers to infrastructure investment, promoting competition, and providing efficient, effective support for rural broadband expansion through our Connect America Fund. This report shows that our approach is working." One of those supposed "barriers to broadband investment" were the former FCC's net neutrality rules designed to keep natural monopolies like Comcast from behaving anti-competitively.
"Overall, capital expenditures by broadband providers increased in 2017, reversing declines that occurred in both 2015 and 2016," the FCC claimed, again hinting that the repeal of net neutrality directly impacted CAPEX and broadband investment. A problem with that claim: the FCC's latest report only includes data up to June 2018, the same month net neutrality was formally repealed. As such the data couldn't possibly support the idea that the elimination of net neutrality was responsible for this otherwise modest growth. Another problem: that claim isn't supported by ISP earnings reports or the public statements of numerous telecom CEOs, who say net neutrality didn't meaningfully impact their investment decisions one way or another. Telecom experts tell Motherboard that's largely because such decisions are driven by a universe of other factors, including the level of competition (or lack thereof) in many markets.
"Overall, capital expenditures by broadband providers increased in 2017, reversing declines that occurred in both 2015 and 2016," the FCC claimed, again hinting that the repeal of net neutrality directly impacted CAPEX and broadband investment. A problem with that claim: the FCC's latest report only includes data up to June 2018, the same month net neutrality was formally repealed. As such the data couldn't possibly support the idea that the elimination of net neutrality was responsible for this otherwise modest growth. Another problem: that claim isn't supported by ISP earnings reports or the public statements of numerous telecom CEOs, who say net neutrality didn't meaningfully impact their investment decisions one way or another. Telecom experts tell Motherboard that's largely because such decisions are driven by a universe of other factors, including the level of competition (or lack thereof) in many markets.
Lying has become a standard policy in the U.S. government.
telco upgrades and dsl expansion around here have slowed to a halt, fiber upgrades discontinued. tv service (via wireline) discontinued. service more expensive than ever. caps coming.
cableco headends were ripped out of every service area within 150 miles, now fed by a single, and vulnerable to severing (happens at least once a year, takes out cableco delivered phone, tv and internet service), fiber to a distant city's plant. costs skyrocking and service more limited than ever (caps).
cellular data is going away. end of story there. only along an interstate highway will 4g be available. rural areas are losing their data. costs of course going up for those who will still be able to get it.
fuck shitpile pai.
Certainly it's a requisite trait in any Trump administration cabinet level hire apparently. At least after they do the damage like Zinke, they will almost certainly face charges for their casual criminal attitudes. Drain swamps, fill prisons.
We went from "killing the NN will be the end of the Internet as we know it" to "unprecedented growth in broadband connectivity last year" not being "entirely true" due to to FCC policies.
The sky still might fall, but for now I hope the folks who claim with complete confidence what will happen in the country and the world might want to reappraise their other claims.
Coincidence? Probably, but still...
Corrupt official, part of an even more corrupt administration, produced a "factually challenged" report. News at 11.
when people don't know the details.
Like: "FCC Falsely Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband"
AC comments get piped to
Don't forget to thank Obama for putting Pai on the FCC board.
...that those net neutrality rules had never actually come into effect so claiming that killing them made things better wouldn't make any sense even if the rules were terrible.
Excellent work NPC *74 black man bad.
Gay Judo Boss will be pleased with us all.
The government should have never gotten involved. They fucked up the free market and directly interfered with competitors in the days of cable TV roll-outs. They literally created the situation we have today by handing out monopolies. They were suppose to limit the price of cable, but then they eliminated that restriction. Mean while competition can't enter the market today because you now have an entrenched monopoly/duopoly situation. Anybody who enters the market today will be undermined by a competitor who has already paid off its loans and can out-compete. For the free market to work you can't hinder competition and particularly not in the early days of an industries formation.
he literally is wasting air, that guy should be sent to the sun in a rocket for a one way trip
Why have they been getting more expensive, opposite the trend of electronics in general?
ftfy
Coincidence? Probably, but still...
Given Pai was nominated to be on the FCC by by the demonstrable liar, Barack "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan..." Obama, you may be right.
Yeah, that's it.
You big fucking "I don't like his policies therefore he's a LIAR/CRIMINAL/ORANGE MAN BAD!!! BOOO HOOO HOO " baby.
Awww, diddums have a tantrum when Trump won?
Awww, pooor widdle baby.
Go fuck yourself.
Up the ass.
With an old, badly splintered telephone pole. Dipped in flaming tar.
You unthinking dolt.
it must mean that they are about to do something even worst.
But you haven't said that you believe that the government is lying now, have you? So you could still be wrong now and think that this administration isn't lying their arses off all the time. But you DID get your rant against that black man off, so well done you, racist.
So therefore we should ignore you, and everyone who has lied, which is everyone. Or are you too busy beating your libertard drum about how ebil the big bad government is that you ignore the FACT that they're made of people and your stock whinge #542 is completely meaningless and void of thought?
Government invention. No cables either, since government gives the right to access for the cablecos. So empty anti-government whinge from the braindead libertard fuckwit is detected.
One would not expect to see ANY significant changes one way or the other. While the FCC has punted on NN, it is still a public policy issue, is showing up in state legislation, and is working its way through various courts. Big ISPs are not going to make major changes, either in terms of building capacity or changing filtering policies until they have an idea of what the next decade or so is going to look like.
it's still tied up in courts. That said, my ISP didn't used to have bandwidth caps and they added them right after Trump got elected. That is not a coincidence.
It can take years for the damage caused by bad policies and ideas to really be felt. That's the problem. It lets you shift the blame. This has been happening since at least Reagan. Folks elect a Republican for a change, the GOP wrecks shit, the Dem comes in and fixes as much as they can, doesn't fix everything in 8 years and then we get another Republican. Each time the cycle repeats a little ground is lost, so that real wages are down 20%.
I understand folks don't like partisan politics, but the reality is that if you're somebody who works for a living (as opposed to somebody who either inherited money or just gets it from the stuff they own via rent seeking) then the GOP is not your friend. Enough folks have realized this that a Democratic Socialist has a real shot at the presidency.
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But, hey, you gotta blame the n1gger somehow, aint'cha, you racist fuckwit.
-If broadband gets worse, advocates were right that the change would make it worse.
-If broadband gets better, it would have happened anyway.
-If there were problems before the change, those are irrelevant and coincidental.
-If there are exactly the same problems after the change, those are because the rules changed.
Nothing can ever shake the faith.
Liberal for: true.
Since of course, when there's ANYTHING about a thing they dislike which is wrong, it is a total lie, and spun as 100% wrong.
The news outlets only pretend there's anything there when they can't pull at a thread to say the whole thing is wrong.
In with your complaint sans reality before anyone gets to you, hmmm? No matter what you will insist that trump is doing fine, his policies are good, whatever the dems do is commie socialist nazi repression and the free market will fix everything. No matter what, you will hold to your faith.
Monopolies were going to happen regardless, see the remedial math above. Government sanctioning the monopoly is to get the telecos to accept regulation in return. Don't like that? The only alternatives are much more strict government regulation to promote competition in the first place, or public ownership of the infrastructure. Two other things that libertarian derp doesn't like, either.
I am sitting and charging my car on the way home from the airport. In a whole week in the IS having used residential fiber as well as residential cable modem and TMobile LTE, all I can say is... damn the US is in the dark ages.
I truly was amazed at how bad the internet is in America. It actually is noticeably worse than it was last year at the same time.
And the ridiculous restrictions like only letting 3 devices tether to a phone was just stupid.
I am happy to be back in Europe!
Anarchists are socialists, indeed the no-government utopia of Marx theory would be anarchist. Anarchists believe that nobody has the right to restrict anyone else's freedom. Libertarians claim to be anarcho-capitalists, but want the rights of people to be free to do anything, including restrict others' freedoms. And capitalism requires government... so they're absolutely not anarchist. Anarchists want you to be not free to make others free. Libertarians want to be free to make you not free, that is a restriction on their "freedom". Of course, the libertarian dogma fails on the blind choice test: they ALWAYS assume they will be the slave owners, not the slaves.
Likely why that cherry tree story is so important.
Washington was the first president to march on his own citizens to 'quell' a rebellion over unfair taxation... the Whiskey Tax, which favored large eastern industrial manufacturers with flat taxes over a certain volume over western and poorer subsistence farmers who used whiskey as a form of barter, easier to transport goods, and a savings fallback for when harvests were bad (and they often were back in those days.) The Appalachian farmers could never produce enough individually to benefit from the flat tax, and the percentage tax was considered too high, and more importantly a sign of things to come. Since most of those same farmers had served in the revolutionary army and were in heavy debt, some with interest waived, but many with interest accrued during the War, most found it infuriating that they were now paying the very taxes they'd fought a war to end.
American has never lived up to its ideals, only on occasion had them pulled kicking and screaming to the forefront when its citizenry has had enough.
Just wondering. Nice? Lovely pink elephants?
IMHO, the main benefit of preventing Net Neutrality is to prevent abuse of whole Internet!!!
(It does NOT need to increase Internet infrastructure investment!!!)
Net Neutrality, sounds like a simple obvious benefit for everyone, but, is that really so???
Imagine, a future, some people/companies doing massive abuse of ISP infrastructure & the public (other customers) keep complaining about them, but ISP cannot do anything to stop the abusing people/companies!
Why, because the law says, all internet traffic must be always treated equal (if Net Neutrality becomes law, that is)!!!
You don't WANT "leftist" policies, no matter what you claimed there, so you BELIEVE "mob" of "self righteous leftists". Forgetting, not that you ever cared to remember, how many righties shouted down, for example, Kathy Gifford for her "joke" presidential decapitation. Or how atheists are refused office by rightwing republicans.
Not that you have any evidence OF "mob of self righteous leftists shouting people down", you only have the echo chamer of a few random acts. By your "research" we can prove that your lot are a psychotic bunch of authoritarians who will shout down and murder if shouting doesn't silence "them".
And weird you whine about "self righteous shouting down dissenting voices" yet are desperate to have this claimed to shut down someone saying that they'd like a different pronoun (never mind that this is a peterson bullshit alt-right shibboleth too: there was no law to make using "the wrong pronoun" illegal, merely gender identity added to the race, ethnicity and religion as protected classes). YOU demand that people SHUT UP about their gender and accept what you demand they take it as.
WOW. So glad I pulled all my money out of that shithole economy!
Because your head is up your arse, everything to you is upside down.
But, psst: Obama put Pai in the FCC in the first place, not Trump. I have come to believe that the *original* push for net neutrality was a farce.
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" - President Obama, on many occasions
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" - President Obama, on many occasions
"the 9/11 Benghazi attack was caused by a YouTube video" (not a ditrect quote but a summary of what was said on nearly every TV channel by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, under instruuctions from Ben Rhodes, the failed novelist Obama hired who also was brother of CBS News president)
"he [Bowe Bergdahl] served the United States with honor and distinction" - Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice
“As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean we wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the – you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do,” - John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, who later had to apologize to the US Senate and resign after it was proven the CIA had hacked the Senate's computers.
“No, sir Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect. But not wittingly.” - James Clapper (Obama's DNI testifying under oath in congress) in response to question “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?”
“What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails. I stand by that.” - James Clapper, lying about his previous lie
“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner, by saying no,” - James Clapper on previous lies (also a lie, given that national security people often answer such questions in public sessions with something like "I'm sorry senator, I can't discuss such matters in an open forum")
“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus, Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.” “We created an echo chamber, They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.” - Obama's guy Ben Rhodes explaining how easily the Obama administration manipulated the press on the Iran nuclear deal.
Just another INCEL Republican faggot losing his Trump wig.
- The fact-checks behind 'The Daily Show's' 50 Fox news 'lies'
By Lauren Carroll, Aaron Sharockman on Thursday, February 26th, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.
The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds."
We’ve fact-checked almost all of the statements they cited. For the record, we originally counted 49 claims, not 50. The Daily Show said No. 50 was left off due to a technical error. They've updated their Vine, which we've included here.
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1. "In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health." Sean Hannity, Nov. 11, 2013 False
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2. "And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this." Anna Kooiman, Oct. 5, 2013 https://bit.ly/2W1wHzv
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3. Labor union president Andy Stern is "the most frequent visitor" at the White House. Glenn Beck, Dec. 3, 2009 False
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4. "Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns." Tucker Carlson, Aug. 9, 2014 Pants on Fire
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5. White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN. Steve Doocy, Sept. 29, 2009 False
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6. "Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
Sarah Palin, May 31, 2011 False
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7. "There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people." John Stossel, Dec. 4, 2014 False
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8. "Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history." Sarah Palin, Aug. 1, 2010 Pants on Fire
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9. "The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats." Dana Perino, Oct. 31, 2013 False
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10. The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration." Lou Dobbs, July 1, 2014 False
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11. Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough." George Will, Oct. 19, 2014 False
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12. Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks. Gretchen Carlson, March 10, 2010 Pants on Fire
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13. Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate. Lou Dobbs, Aug. 19, 2014 False
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14. When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."
Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 23, 2009 False
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15. "The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day." Michele Bachmann, Nov. 3, 2010 False (Note: Bachmann’s claim was made on CNN, not Fox News but Glenn Beck made a similar claim on Fox)
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16. "We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it." Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 27, 2010 Pants on Fire
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17. "If you make more than $250,000 a year you only really take home about $125,000." Steve Doocy, July 11, 2012 False
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18. A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season." Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Nov. 19, 2013 False
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19. "Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay
Actually he nominated Pai AT THE DIRECT SUGGESTION OF MCCONNEL to keep the bipartisan makeup of the panel, as was the custom just those few short years ago before Trump's treasonous autocratic gambles.
Pai was the Republican choice and Obama obliged them. One can question the wisdom of catering to that spineless dick cozy Mitchy bitch, but in the end it was SOP to keep the panel bipartisan and Obama did that.
(Your dishonesty and whattaboutism does not surprise anyone, GOP cowards, nor will it save Trump from the gallows.)
Put your head in the noose, and if unlike Trump you can think of anything you might require praying to absolve, now's the time. The lake of fire awaits, traitor.
the founders of the USA created a Constitutional Republic with a small and limited central government.
Big Govt = vast number of people and things to watch and really big lies.
Small Govt = fewer politicians, bureaucrats and things to watch over and therefore fewer and smaller lies.
It's no wonder that corrupt politicians over the decades have grown the government to monstrous proportions and injected it into every aspec of our lives - it makes it impossible for the citizenry to keep a watch on all the badness.
Surprised at not seeing suggestions of gutting something else.
Great for broadband if you're an ISP . . . . .
. . . . not so much if you're a consumer.
Guess whose side the FCC is on ?
FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband ...
...[derived] profits.
What they really meant.
When politicians are bought and bureaucrats are sourced from the very industry they police, don't expect protection of the common good.
I for one don't like this MSM crap. Fox news and Hannity told me that Pai was an alright guy and Obama was worse
How fucking lame are you? 11?
Anarchism is socialism, a form thereof. The means of production is owned by the worker who uses them, like artisan economies, socialist economies and communist economies, therefore they are all socialist, all forms of socialism. Anarchism is a socialist political ideology.
Strange that. It's almost like to the libertard the small government is their god, able to do only and purely what the true believer says they should be doing. Copyrights, contracts, ownership ALL require government intervention to protect, yet this interference in every aspect of people's lives is not abhorrent to you fucking idiots, is it?
That, however, doesn't fit your ideology: government bad, private industry good. Private industry created this monopoly, forced government to do it.
Anarchy is "with no masters" yet pure libertarianism allows the individual to own the means of production yet not have to work it, it also allows slavery, since the individual is allowed in libertarianism to own other people, it's just not governments allowed to do shit to individuals.
All goverment bad, mmmkay.
Private companies are GOOD and only care for WELL BEING of every citizen with a fully paid up license for _LIFE_.
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Yet I don't see you offering any of the blame to McConnell which means you have no interest in being honest, just in trying to tie Pai's decisions to Obama which is entirely indigenous. You already know this which is why everyone can safely disregard your statement as propaganda.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
just in trying to tie Pai's decisions to Obama which is entirely indigenous.
FYI, I think the word you were looking for there is "disingenuous".
Yawn. Please stop eating your own shit! It's nasty. Stop molesting children! You can't hide behind anonymity you worthless coward.
— the pathetic living punchline that is impersonating gerald butler
I have several sites that are in the southern US and are on Comcast. We have a icmp check to test the internet connection so we can switch to backup when the primary goes down. On a daily basis now our ICMP packets get blocked and cause false positives. At this time I don't have the ability to migrate away from these ICMP checks so we just have to deal with the fact that Comast is doing either traffic shaping or throttling that's causing us issues. It's screwed up because we cover about 1/3 of the US and Comcast is the only ISP we're currently seeing this with.
A bad student evaluates themselves. Unsurprisingly, they find themselves to pass in every respect, and are academically superior in most respects!
Also, Mom & Dad definitely don't need to see and sign their report cards.