re: FCC to free Internet From Obama's “Net Neutrality” Rules

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dont know. No one has said how this is bad other than they have to pay internet + netflix or netflix slows down and will have to use someone else

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This tells me you have no idea how any of this works

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All traffic needs to be treated the same, to argue otherwise is insane.

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LOL. Literally the opposite

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SPs we’re proposing it before NN was written.

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That didn't answer my question. Regulations should't be written to address things "proposed" or "might do."

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All traffic needs to be treated the same, to argue otherwise is insane.

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I agree. Title II and NN isn't the way to do it.

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Germany has 3x the population density.

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I said take infrastructure out the equation

Even in small villages outside the city you get these prices

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Just forgetting the infrastructure of fiber

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But you can't do this and have an honest discussion about internet prices. Companies have to recoup capital investment.

It cost Kabel Deutschland FAR less to run fiber and the associated infrastructure than it did Comcast, Century Link, etc.

They had the ability to support higher transmission speeds and offer it at a lower price point for this very reason.

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Even in small villages outside the city you get these prices

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A "small village outside the city" was maybe a five minute drive.

A "small town outside the city" in the US can be an hour or more drive.

We drove from Schweinfurt Germany to the Netherlands in less than a day. It took me two days to cross Texas alone. The amount of distance you're dealing with isn't even remotely comparable. That matters. A lot.

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I said take infrastructure out the equation

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You can't be serious.

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Even in small villages outside the city you get these prices

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Sigh

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But you can't do this and have an honest discussion about internet prices. Companies have to recoup capital investment.

It cost Kabel Deutschland FAR less to run fiber and the associated infrastructure than it did Comcast, Century Link, etc.

They had the ability to support higher transmission speeds and offer it at a lower price point for this very reason.

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Yet they still reach villages where people are not living on top of each other. You may not get great speeds but you are not paying way to much for it. So the investment is being made.

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We drove from Schweinfurt Germany to the Netherlands in less than a day. It took me two days to cross Texas alone. The amount of distance you're dealing with isn't even remotely comparable. That matters. A lot.

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A major reason is bc start up ISPs get locked out the game

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We drove from Schweinfurt Germany to the Netherlands in less than a day. It took me two days to cross Texas alone. The amount of distance you're dealing with isn't even remotely comparable. That matters. A lot.

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It makes a huge difference. Yet there's not exactly thriving competition in our population centers either. Local deals are a huge issue.

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I live in a town of 20k people right now in Oklahoma. One company decided to invest bc they created a local monopoly.

If other companies or start ups had access to all markets you would see internet quality in rural America go up.

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Good God.

Stop it. Please make it stop!!!!!!

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This tells me you have no idea how any of this works

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I have said this

Your only reason for not liking it was nextflix and that it would cost 10 more