AT&T "kills net neutrality," announces sponsored data

Japan's getting 2Gb/s FTTH soon as well, even though the rest of their technological climate is still in the '70s. Cable companies in the US could make the switch to DOCSIS 3.0 standards to provide gigabit service without having to do expensive FTTH installations but they have no inclination to do so until they're forced to, be it by government regulation or consumer revolt. One thing you can be damn well sure of is that they'll be kicking and screaming all the way.

On a related note, the Trans Pacific Partnership deal is far worse for the Internet's future than this ruling--the FCC will continue the fight to reinstate net neutrality, most likely by getting cable internet providers reclassified as common carriers and thus subject to the same antitrust regulations that phone providers are subject to--but when TPP slides under the radar and goes into effect it'll be far more disastrous; TPP has SOPA/PIPA-levels of potential for abuse and practically the whole free world will be under its jurisdiction.

Be sure to contact your representatives. Most of them aren't even aware of these issues.
 
Quinion said:
P.S. Catgirl, you ignorant slut........the system is already monetized; all the FCC sought to do was allow free competition on a level playing field. Big corporations hate that, and will throw vast sums of money at anything to tip the balance to favor them , so that they can collect even larger sums from us. And when your ISP decides to charge you extra to allow you to play games online through XBL, over and above what you pay for XBL, keep it to yourself.
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1: You're the slut, not me.. ^_^

2: Plenty of things online that were not monetized before, now have micro-transactions.

3: I already pay a ridiculous amount for my high-speed internet, I have 700KB per second upload speed, (with Turbo Boost) a little extra price probably wouldn't even make an impact on the overall absurdity....

4: All this thing boils down to is them trying to charge you in more individualized price packages, quit acting like the overall price of things will go up, that's purely internet nerd speculation you've been reading, they always fear-monger you, (Remember SOPA?) And in any case I highly doubt they'd say "Oh, we're going to charge you more based upon how much bandwidth you use!" That's what the high price for internet is already, the charge to use lots of bandwidth, and if they did charge you based upon bandwidth, then I'd probably get a discount because I don't use that much anyways!!!

5: You know what I love about online petitions? They mean nothing, it's just a bunch of people free-of-charge putting their names on a statement in hopes a big company will read / or care about... Now if people mass threatened to cancel their current service, then it'd have some weight...
 
MONEYMUFFINS said:
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SIDE-EFFECT OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PESSIMISM ISN'T THE NORM.
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I have trouble knowing if this is how you actually feel because you're consistantly negative or if this is another of your dedicated trolling attempts.

On topic: Who else thinks it's more than a little suspicious AT&T announces this and eight days later net neutrality is struck down?
 
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