As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality

Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by higherpurpose on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:47PM (#9104087)

Still disappointed they didn't unbundle the last mile. It seems to me that's where the biggest pain-point is right now, and doing that would've been far more effective in getting ISPs to play nice in the market, since then they'd have actual competition.

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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by rayiner on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:49PM (#9104638)

Any large-scale unbundling proposal, which would necessarily target the cable networks, would be fairly unprecedented. To date, unbundling has been applied where the government had a stake in the networks to begin with. The POTS network was constructed by AT&T, a government-sanctioned monopoly. In the U.K., the phone network was built by BT when it was a public corporation. The modern cable networks were built mostly after cable companies lost their local monopolies in 1996.

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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by warfangle on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:55PM (#9104131)

In that way, it kind of is like Obamacare for the internet.....

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