Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by byuu on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:04PM (#13195280)

Right, there are plenty of people who would be happy with basically Facebook and Gmail alone. And the cable companies will be more than happy to extract $40-$60 a month from granny that uses maybe 1GB of bandwidth from those two sites at best.

This puts say, Hacker News, in a very bad position.

As well as any new startup that wants to compete against the major players with billions of dollars.

Already there are people strong-armed into AT&T's DirecTV Now, which is zero-rated on AT&T's wireless network. With the pitiful bandwidth caps on mobile data, how can Netflix possibly compete with that?

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Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by 794CD01 on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:17PM (#13195372)

PSA: if you realize that reality "puts you in a bad position", take that as a hint to reconsider your position.

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Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by jandrese on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:40PM (#13198590)

Yeah, you should just roll over and die so Time Warner/Comcast/Viacom/etc... bottom line isn't threatened in any way no matter how lousy and overpriced their product is. Geez, the nerve of some people.

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