re: Baws with Comcast should buckle up.

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Well, those broadband suppliers worked with governments to become total providers

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Alright....

I can tell by the downvotes and upvotes nobody knows what the frick they're talking about.

Chicken gets 90% upvotes and he basically said he doesn't care what Comcast does.

Eta: and he's probably the only one in this thread with a website that gets any amount of significant traffic .

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I love how the net neutrality people bitch about broadband availability, then want to make the broadband suppliers into public utilities.

I can't think of a single public utility company that works right.

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Since we’ve moved into our house almost 4 years ago, I’ve never had a problem with my gas, electric or water.

I’ve had multiple problems with both Charter and AT&T uverse for internet and cable.

Making them utilities would be an enormous improvement.

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Someone is going to come along and provide great service for about $50 / month and all the other providers will get in line.

The market is ripe for the entrance of a disruptor to come in and take over.

I think it'll happen within 6 months.

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It’s amazing how so many people lack a basic understanding of what is going on

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Making them utilities would be an enormous improvement.

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What advancements have these utilities made? Is your water delivered through better pipes?
Electricity greener?

Keep voting GOP. Idiots

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I’ve had multiple problems with both Charter and AT&T uverse for internet and cable.

Making them utilities would be an enormous improvement.

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During the past 2 years? With full Net Neutrality regs in place?

Inconceiveable! I guess it doesn't matter that those regs are gone, right? Nowhere to go but up.

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Someone is going to come along and provide great service for about $50 / month and all the other providers will get in line.

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Google couldn't do it. Google.

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A result of their protection tactics is that open competition is still allowed. Dinosaurs are writing these laws that will be manipulate by robots. Those copper wires are artifacts in a changing world. Who gives a frick about broadband when true wireless connectivity is a decade away.

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Gate keeper will still be the same. Sorry. Also, you're talking about 10 years from now..

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Some Obama-era red tape bullshite.

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Wtf? Some of you folks need to stop falling for the propaganda.

The principles of NN have been the status quo from the beginning. It is the reason the internet was able to grow into what it is today. But then people started to realize the enormous profit potential of violating these principles in an anti-competitive and anti-consumer way once the inevitable ISP consolidation reached a tipping point.

It was the W-era Republican FCC that first proposed a set of rules to preserve the principles of NN. But somewhere between then and now, conservatives have forgotten their own principles and now do and say whatever their corporate backers want.