2018 Post-Net Neutrality: Comcast, Cox, Frontier Are Raising Their Rates
7 years ago by davidpakman (76)
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Net neutrality or not this was going to happen anyway because of the monopoly leverage of these companies. The Title 2 net neutrality rule did nothing to disable the monopolies of broadband internet service. In fact, by not classifying the internet companies under Title 2, we might see some competitors in the residential broadband space rise in the next few years.
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Agreed. I mean, we already are...
The problem is a lot of people still think residential broadband is some sort of absolute endgame. As of 2017, 40.7 "mobile only" internet users existed in the US.
More and more "residential internet" is becoming obsolete. Our devices are mobile, and we want our service to be as well. The real competition will be in who can offer the most effective mobile internet solutions to users.
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The problem comes in when people assume that mobile technology is a replacement option for a residential internet connection. For as great as 4g lte is, you do not want to try to play any kind of game you expect any amount of low latency on, even potato games like league of legends. MMO's are out of the question, and trying to stream anything would be patchy at best.
As an example, if you say, have a computer that you remote into for security reasons or what have you, that desktop is on a dedicated residential line, your phone is on 4g lte, and trying to scroll a page has so much latency it is disorienting. That is just performance, once you start to factor in costs of a $50 hotspot device, plus ~$16 a gigabyte and all of a sudden watching a public domain movie becomes a ~$20-$30 experience in data alone.
In my opinion, saying that mobile internet is really an option at all is just conditioning people to be used to metered connections that can be just as patchy as dial up used to be.
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I type this from Korea, where my phone just completed a 2 gb download in ~5 minutes.
Mobile internet is not inherently slow, it's the infrastructure in the US that is the bottleneck.
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I wasn't trying to say it is inherently slow, but that on the basic level, to push the boundaries of internet services, we need low latency high speed connections. Typically that comes to traditional cables, and the cable will almost always be the fastest lowest ping option.
I'm interested, how does your phones data compare to a dedicated line?
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What do you mean "how does your phones data compare to dedicated line"? Do you mean is a dedicated line faster?
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Yes.
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Oh, well yes it is faster, but like how fast do you want it? I mean I'm getting like 25mbps at 60 ping when I do a speed test on my mobile, and depending on the service you select for dedicated line you might be at 10ping and 50mbps. I'd say either of these would be fine for high level gaming, no?
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I'm a little confused by the idea suggested here. Net neutrality didn't set any kind of price caps on the ISPs did it? My understanding was neutrality only really dealt with keeping access equal to all content providers regardless of how unequal their usage volume needs were.
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I can’t wait for all those municipal Wi-Fi programs they lobbied against to come back in force.
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People seem to think costs WONT rise, even if government intervenes. Of course internet is going up, ALL prices are going up. Food, gas, real estate, etc. We're in a big bubble and when it pops....
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this post very nice ..i like dtube..
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may be i reasteam your post sir
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Yes. it is so surprised. We have to give thanks to technology. Excellent policies. Thanks for sharing the surprising news @davidpakman
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Impressive thoughts and much appreciated efforts.
stay blessed happy steeming
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Interesting! Since the net neutrality rules were repealed, it still seems unclear if and when we'll see drastic changes to the internet. It seems likely that the the internet providers would increase rates as the first step!
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No surprise for capitalist... ;)
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If it was not expensive enough. Got to switch providers now. Who has not raised their rates yet since net neutrality got removed.
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Nice post
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Yeah , the main idea is interesting , we could expect to get here . Personally i am not that surprised . Lets wait and see how it will behave in the future.
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I am certainly not surprised, but I wouldn't have been surprised regardless of how Net Neutrality turned out. My personal internet bill seems to go up every year already. I currently pay something like $83 a month, and that's only for cable. No phone or cable. Before Netflix and all sort of streaming services existed, I feel like I paid closer to $40-50 for Internet. So they're already charging us more to use services that allow us to cut the cord. They just want to take it even further and line their pockets even more.
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Very interesting post I like it very much
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good video @davidpakman thank you for sharing
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Surprised policy. Consumer may accept their policy.
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I'll upvote this post while I can still afford my Internet !
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Ok
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Makes me glad I'm on Century Link, and that they're actually keeping true to their promise of speed, bandwidth, and price. I'm gonna hold them to it, especially with their advertising blitz they've run for years...
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nice times post you yes @davidpakman.
look around my post sir.
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Business owners like Amazon and Facebook will have to deeply think about it. Their customer gonna decrease as well.
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do you vote @ davidpakman
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I’ll have to find ways to cut my expenses.
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