Re:The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
by garmaine on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:07AM
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The USA is big. Like, really fucking big. As a result running an ISP, wired or cellular, has an extremely high cost to entry. As a result of that, most people’s choices for internet provider is precisely limited to one choice, the local telco monopoly. No net neutrality means that ISP ca. Do whatever they want and get away with it because what are you going to do? Send a sternly written letter?
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Re:The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
by spiralx on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:17AM
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> The USA is big. Like, really fucking big.
So? Most of that is empty space nobody is trying to serve. The key metric is population density, which is comparable between urban areas in Europe and the US. The size of the US has nothing to do with lack of ISP choice, as evidenced by the fact that the same problem doesn't occur in countries with lower population densities than the US (33.8 people per km²) such as Sweden (21.5), Finland (16.2), Norway (13.4) or Australia (3.1).