Your arguments for no ISP choice are invalid. Also electric company analogy is wrong

What the holy frick?

100 dollars a month for 90 gigs of capped data from a satellite company with spotty service, a slow DSL connection, or niche wireless companies piggy-backing off the big boys is not serious competition for the near monopolies in most regions of the country.

The energy analogy is used to illustrate two things, 1.) the absurdity of having limited, non-competitive choice. Afterall, you can spend money to have solar panels installed, invest in heating oil, or build a fire. but no reasonable person would consider it universally available and viable competition. 2.) it is used to illustrate what net neutrality would look like in another context to drive home the point more clearly. Like allowing your energy company to decide they will not give full power or gas to appliances that haven't payed them fast lane service. So that Samsung drier you bought will not receive full power, that new stove will only heat up to low...Unless you use the products they are paid a fee for.

You stole that photo from me but forgot to include the preface I made. Which is that it focuses solely on census blocks. So as long as that service is available to some residents, in constitutes as all of them in that chart. But as anyone in most areas knows, your person down the street may have infrastructure for Cox, ATT, and have a house facing the right way for satellite, but Jimbo down the street doesnt have infrastructure for ATT and his home can't get satellite.

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The vast majority of the country has access to 3 or more ISPs,

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I live in metro Atlanta and I have two options. Comcast and AT&T. Where is this third option?

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cokebottleag

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Absolutely did not steal it from you. I didn't jump into a 500 reply thread and dig up your graphic.

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Ok pal.

indeed, i think coke is pretty young too so no excuses

the others are old, senile, and losing their minds so that explains a lot of it

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indeed, i think coke is pretty young too so no excuses

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Some of the most clueless people I trouble shoot are under 35.

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the others are old, senile, and losing their minds so that explains a lot of it

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Yea just out of touch completely

Anyone wanting to repeal net neutrality is a fool, unless they work for an ISP. The only way I may be okay with this would be if they treated cable lines like phone lines and open them up for any company to use. Then you’d have true competition. As is, the infrastructure is too expensive for multiple ISPs to install and you will only have one or two options.

Electric companies also provide preferential service to certain companies. I don’t understand why people think labeling it as a utility prevents preferences from being handed out.

Lol

I doubt you even realize how silly your comparison is.


You must have been staring into a mirror for the second part of your post.