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That is the same buffoon who said there exists plenty of competition in the broadband industry and voted against redefining the term from 4 to 25 mbits. I am only able to get broadband from one provider by the way, as are the majority of Americans.
Wait, so voting against redefining something meant to distort the internet situation to push the FCC's power-grabbing agenda makes him a buffoon?
He is very astute and brings up several good points in a professional and easily understandable manner. Hardly the buffoon you want to smear him as.
There
is competition in the broadband industry.
Options for internet are better than ever before.
For example:
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According to this FCC chart, 80 percent of households in America have at least two fixed and/or mobile providers that offer "at least 10 Mbps downstream speeds," which until recently was far above what the agency concerned high-speed broadband. In 2010, the FCC defined as service that offered a 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. Just a few weeks ago, it arbitrarily upped its definition to be 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream. (Net oldtimers will remember the old days of 56k modems and the like.) At the end of 2012, says the FCC, fully 96 percent of households had two or more providers offering 6Mbps downstream and 1.5Mbps upstream service. That may not give you all the bandwidth you want at any given moment, but it also presents a picture different than the monopoly situation that many Net Neutrality proponents rail against.
You evidently vehemently support arbitrarily increasing the definition so you can misrepresent the situation as having less competition, making up stories about a majority having only 1 option..
Much of the restriction of ISPs that is happening is local-oriented, stuff that this legislation won't fix.
Public utility regulations actually preserve monopolies rather than prevent them from occurring. Tacking on numerous regulations they must comply with, along with additional fees, bans and taxes will inhibit other options from coming into the picture, not the other way around.
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A few years from now we will be laughing at the 25 mbits.
And what do you think will bring us there faster and more efficiently? medieval title ii regulations giving the FCC vast more control when they have a history of stifling innovation? Or something closer to the path we were currently on, where you are able to comfortably predict faster speeds in the near future in one of the fastest growing industries in the country in recent decades?
We've seen massive strides forwards in recent years.. there is no need for these nonsensical changes that discourage innovation and investment in the name of fixing a problem that doesn't exist.