The Comcast monopoly is trying to deepen their hooks into the phone market now.

[franklin]

Yes I'm a hater.

Look at their phone plans. They are using the BOGO Apple promo that T-Mobile & ATAT are using to undermine the telephone industry. Instead of offering the same deal, they're selling the phones at full price in order to undercut their competitors. The price looks great on the surface but when you add in the total cost it's outrageously expensive.

Down with Comcast!

 

[LogGrad98]

The cable monopolies in general are hugely damaging to our information infrastructure. False caps, throttling, limited access, it all happens by design. We could have the most advanced internet system in the world, the infrastructure is there, but the monopolistic approach gives the companies the power to limit it. In Germany our cable internet was much much faster than anything I have seen here, at least 10 times faster, sometimes more, and half the cost. Down with the huge monopolies.

 

[DutchJazzer]

The cable monopolies in general are hugely damaging to our information infrastructure. False caps, throttling, limited access, it all happens by design. We could have the most advanced internet system in the world, the infrastructure is there, but the monopolistic approach gives the companies the power to limit it. In Germany our cable internet was much much faster than anything I have seen here, at least 10 times faster, sometimes more, and half the cost. Down with the huge monopolies.

you are forgetiing 1 major difference, as to why prices and speeds in europa are fatser and price cheeper.

but by all means blame monopolies, while asking the biggest monopoly of all to take control of the internet

 

[DutchJazzer]

ooh i forgot to explain.

mostly population density.

in europe 100 yards of infrastructure services a whole lot more people than in usa, maybe outside of new york and LA.


if their is a house every 200 yard if you lay down 2000 yards of infrastructure it only services 20 household

but in most cities the population is so denc the same 2000 yards services 500-1000 households. so yeah CHEAPER!

 

[LogGrad98]

ooh i forgot to explain.

mostly population density.

in europe 100 yards of infrastructure services a whole lot more people than in usa, maybe outside of new york and LA.


if their is a house every 200 yard if you lay down 2000 yards of infrastructure it only services 20 household

but in most cities the population is so denc the same 2000 yards services 500-1000 households. so yeah CHEAPER!

http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-isps-competition-net-neutrality-ajit-pai-fcc-2017-4

One way to do this is a process known as “local loop unbundling.” This involves regulating ISPs to lease or open up the “last mile” of their infrastructure to other ISPs, who’d then sell internet service plans over the wires that are already in place. The immense barriers to entry for any would-be ISP would disappear.

This would be a radical change, one that’d effectively tell Comcast and Charter and Verizon that the infrastructure they helped pay for no longer belongs to them alone. But it could result in a floodgate of competition, potentially bringing far more choice between price and speeds in all parts of the country.

Theoretically, it’d also make any need for net-neutrality (or internet-privacy) laws irrelevant — if your ISP wants to throttle YouTube and sell your browsing history without telling you first, you can just take your business to one that doesn’t.

The market would likely erase such behavior out of existence, or at least force ISPs to deploy it in a way that isn’t terrible.

Crucially, unbundling the local loop is also a proven solution — various European countries, including the UK, and some Asian nations already take a similar approach today. A number of them get faster and/or cheaper broadband as a result. (The US is a much larger land, of course, but the difference is still stark.)

If it wasn’t already obvious, this is all a pipe dream under the current regime. Pai’s plans are just about the exact opposite. But this change in thinking wasn’t close to occurring under the Obama administration, either. America gets cold feet whenever it thinks of even mildly socializing a part of life it considers a universal good.