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

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Why not? The wire providers do the same. Wireless providers most certainly are ISPs. To say other wise is bullshite.

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Not all wired providers have data caps.


Its not a feasible long term solution for most and has extreme limitations. Unless you live somewhere a line can't be ran then getting satellite internet is stupid.

Nothing about the FCC regulating the internet as a utility will improve competition.

Again---the local governments and state governments are the governments that limit competition and create ISP monopolies. Attack them

(How stupid was it to say wireless providers do not count?? Give me a break. Of course they count and wireless is only getting faster. Hughes Net I will add is available everywhere as an alternative to the the wired ISPs. It's service is much better than it used to be and is fast enough now to stream videos and play games.)

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They ARE NOT realistic, primary solutions for home broadband access.

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Why?

People make it sound like the ISP will frick you. And maybe they will. But if I was a provider , I would gladly keep things as they are. If every other person wants to start slowing and restricting sites, I'll open it wide up and every person will be on my service.

You obviously do not have a clue as to what you are talking about.

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Where?

What ISPs now have a data cap that did not already have a data cap policy in place?

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Cox implemented their data cap only months ago. Most ISPs have had "soft" caps for years, where they would send out letters asking users to upgrade their service. Many have switched to hard caps with overage charges recently. Uverse has a data cap of 300GB, 600GB, or 1TB depending on level of service, which they started enforcing with overage charges last year. Comcast has a 1TB cap. I believe Charter/TWC has to wait 7 years before enforcing data caps again as a condition of the merger.

What rock do you live under where data caps aren't a thing?

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Hell Verizon ended theirs due to pressure from TMobile.

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Mobile is a whole different beast.

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Again---the local governments and state governments are the governments that limit competition and create ISP monopolies. Attack them

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This is a straw man argument. Even so, I agree with you that competition should not be limited by state and local governments.

Just be aware that the telecoms that favor this non-enforcement of net neutrality also try to limit municipal broadband roll-outs and other forms of competition at the state and local level that will shrink their profits.

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But methinks the Fed govt will get their filthy paws much more into it. They always do

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They are, but you are just so turned around that you see cronyism and rent-seeking, which is what the Trump Administration is setting out to regulate the space for, as reducing the government footprint positively.

They passed legislation earlier this year to make it easier for ISP’s to sell your data without your consent. Now they are using repeals of regulation to give them more revenue streams at the expense of consumers and digital companies. The constant is the catering to the ISP’s bottom line. Regulation and deregulation. But since this market space is already in oligopoly and monopoly territory in many regions, deregulation serves their interests the most. Since it takes off the shackles that prevented even more of this rent-seeking phase they have entered. That part of a busIness life cycle where they seek to grow the company and revenue not by beating their competition, which they have little, or by offering better products, since consumers have little alternative choice, but by squeezing people on both sides for more money.

It’s rent-seeking cronyism distilled.

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Mobile is a whole different beast.

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No it's not. They're still ISPs.

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And that is exactly why competition is the answer!

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There is barely any competition now. Regulation won't make that worse.