F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by maxsilver on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:25PM (#15926613)

Yes absolutely, but it's not really a problem on the commercial market because there's enough competition there.

In my small city in Michigan, for example, there's exactly one phone company and one cable company for residential uses. But there are 4 different local companies selling commercial bandwidth backhaul, in addition to nationwide major providers like Level3 and AT&T.

If you're somewhere truly rural, this can be an issue, the local monopoly might not let you buy commercial (re-sellable) bandwidth. But in most cities -- even small ones, it's probably not a major issue.

At the moment, commercial ISP services are still somewhat competitive. It's the residential ones that are completely monopolized.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by rev_bird on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:07PM (#15927056)

This is cool, thank you for explaining. It never occurred to me that it would be so different for commercial offerings. The main question I have with ideas like this is where the shitty pricing scams are going to be happening—if it's the residential companies, then yeah, this is perfect. But if it's Level3 that's shaking down Netflix for more money, for example, then the "fork" isn't happening high enough up the chain. Do you have any insight into this part of the equation?

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by burkemw3 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:46PM (#15927409)

There is some related (old) discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862.

That posts link is dead, but the wayback machine is awesome: https://web.archive.org/web/20140828011618/http://blog.level...

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by dsnuh on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:34PM (#15926729)

Please don't be offended, I am only pointing this out because you are obvious very intelligent and expert in the field.

>If your somewhere

*you're

I only point it out because I know some people discount comments that have grammar and spelling errors.

Thanks for the super informative posts!

Edit: I guess I offended, based on the downvotes. I only pointed it out since it was used incorrectly in the posts. I was trying to be helpful, apologies if I was being a dick.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by davrosthedalek on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:21PM (#15928277)

As a non-native speaker, I appreciate if somebody corrects me like this, even if they hurt a little bit. I think you wrote it in a very nice manner.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by dsnuh on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:46PM (#15928481)

I apologise if I hurt you feelings in any way. I meant it only as constructive feedback to someone who might not be aware.

Thanks again for your posts.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by davrosthedalek on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:33PM (#15928775)

I wasn't the original poster you corrected. I wanted to express that I would prefer to be corrected the way you did it.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by dsnuh on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:48PM (#15928844)

Oops! Sorry about the confusion.

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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by freedomben on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:38PM (#15929517)

I didn't downvote you, but you might have gotten downvotes because the beginning of your post built up anticipation by making it sound like you had some amazing point/rebuttal to drop, and then seeing only an `s/your/you're` was a huge disappointment ;-)

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