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Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:28 pm
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For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. That meant that Comcast wouldn't block or throttle lawful Internet traffic and that it wouldn't create fast lanes in order to collect tolls from Web companies that want priority access over the Comcast network.
This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways. The Title II common carrier classification that makes net neutrality rules enforceable isn't necessary because ISPs won't violate net neutrality principles anyway, Comcast and other ISPs have claimed.
But with Republican Ajit Pai now in charge at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast's stance has changed. While the company still says it won't block or throttle Internet content, it has dropped its promise about not instituting paid prioritization.
Internet was broke, needs fixing.
For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. That meant that Comcast wouldn't block or throttle lawful Internet traffic and that it wouldn't create fast lanes in order to collect tolls from Web companies that want priority access over the Comcast network.
This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways. The Title II common carrier classification that makes net neutrality rules enforceable isn't necessary because ISPs won't violate net neutrality principles anyway, Comcast and other ISPs have claimed.
But with Republican Ajit Pai now in charge at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast's stance has changed. While the company still says it won't block or throttle Internet content, it has dropped its promise about not instituting paid prioritization.
Internet was broke, needs fixing.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
Oh no netflix will be slow!
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
Will it be called Comcast Prime?
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
I’m still just in shock that people are dumb enough to think that anything Comcast wants is going to be good. Believing Comcast is up to something good like believing the same about Ted Bundy.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:32 pm to SDVTiger
Not so much worried about Netflix as I am inhibiting future innovation on the internet.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
frick NN, it must die.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:33 pm to DavidTheGnome
NN is a fairly new law. Why was the internet OK before 2015 when it was enacted?
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:33 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m still just in shock that people are dumb enough to think that anything The Federal Gov wants is going to be good. Believing The Federal Gov is up to something good like believing the same about Ted Bundy.
FIFY
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:Don't see what the problem is.
While the company still says it won't block or throttle Internet content
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
Internet was broke, needs fixing.
Oh please let this price middle class and lower middle class Trump entusiast off the internet.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:37 pm to DavidTheGnome
So they won't slow it down, but offer faster speeds.
Can afford.
Can afford.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:37 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I am inhibiting future innovation on the internet.
I assume you mean innovation as it relates to unlawful content. According to the statement you are referencing Comcast themselves state they will not block, throttle, or discriminate against lawful content.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:37 pm to stout
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NN is a fairly new law. Why was the internet OK before 2015 when it was enacted?
New law but not new practice.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:39 pm to tketaco
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So they won't slow it down, but offer faster speeds.
Right and that red sticker price at the store really is a "sale" and not the actual price, too.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:43 pm to DavidTheGnome
Comcast got its shite pushed in by the public with ZERO help from the government or regulation previously.
Comcast is always a great example of how ISPs cannot just do whatever they want no matter how much brainwashing has been done to convince NN was a "good" thing.
Comcast is always a great example of how ISPs cannot just do whatever they want no matter how much brainwashing has been done to convince NN was a "good" thing.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:45 pm to DavidTheGnome
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This post was edited on 11/27/17 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:47 pm to notsince98
quote:The marketers are years ahead on this. Almost no one is going to pay for a-la-carte’ services. Why do you think you cannot buy individual cable channels?
Comcast got its shite pushed in by the public with ZERO help from the government or regulation previously.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:49 pm to Lakeboy7
You break it, you buy it. Do you want the Republican party to be the reason behind the Comcast-ification of the internet?
Posted on 11/27/17 at 2:50 pm to OMLandshark
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Believing Comcast is up to something good like believing the same about Ted Bundy.
Worth repeating, but I would amend it to say any telco.
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