They are going to, but they need "5G" to be complete for them to do so.

Because the industry executives are as dumb as the politicians and had no other ideas to move the needle on what is essentially a static commodity like the electricity grid in a plateauing market.

Doesn't mean it was ever a practical idea.

I've always said we can make laws when or if it actually happens. Because in the meantime we've all been getting upset and wasting time over highly impractical scenarios... and net neutrality has had a serious force and backing, which is good. But in regards to the FCC there's so many more important things to be spending our hacker concern-resources on IMO. For example the FCC (or FTC) should be looking into the millions of Indian (et al) call scammers which are wrecking havoc across the western world - which is an obvious and very real epidemic of fraud that is happening right now and very few western gov are doing anything about the millions of older people getting scammed every day. Much of which transits through legit American infrastructure and web services.

Then wake me up when a single ISP or mobile operator does anything close to what people have been claiming they will do.

It may not have ended up in the nightmare scenario but I still pay Comcast more money for less service now. If I want unlimited data I have to shell out $50 extra a month.

Also this is a symptom of a bigger problem.

You want the FCC to focus on problems which you feel are more serious. That's fine. I agree. The FCC should do something. Anything. The problem is the FCC is weak as hell and not willing to take meaningful action on basically anything at this point.

I’m paying Comcast ~$50 a month for a decently fast connection, and 1TB monthly data transfer, it’s actually cheaper, faster, and a higher limit than it was for the equivalent plan 10 years ago.

The last time I had Comcast was 2016. I did not have a bandwidth cap and they had only just instituted it in a few test markets.

Now it is nation-wide.

I get slightly more speed than I did back then, but I'd trade that extra speed for no bandwidth cap in a heartbeat. Obviously usage depends on person and plenty of people won't notice cap but I can easily drop 1/10th of my monthly bandwidth budget on a single game on steam these days.

Why are you comparing your internet to the internet from 10 years ago when it was significantly less important and less used...

The internet in 2010 wasn't significantly less important or less used than now.