Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard::Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Stuff like this makes me so glad my town has a local ISP that is competitively priced, works well, and they don’t push any sort of deal on you.

    The fun part about that is that before they were available in my area, they let my subdivision know that if 40% of us signed up, they would lay fiber in the whole neighborhood and we could choose them over Spectrum. Suddenly, mysteriously, our Spectrum speeds went from a ridiculous 20mbps to a still not great 80mbs. Can’t imagine why.

    Basically the whole neighborhood told Spectrum to fuck off. Now I have over 300mbps and I could get a faster speed if I wanted to pay for it.

    • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The place i grew up cable wasn’t very common. Power and phone on poles, everyone lived far apart and there was only a foot or two of soil before you hit bedrock. The phone lines sucked so much that dialing into BBS and eventually dialup internet was problematic.

      I ended up working a summer for an ISP where we used point to point radios to connect to towers 20-40 miles across a lake. Was amazing when people started getting 10mbps. This was all before cellular tethering and satellite was viable options.