Surprise, surprise. Here comes Big Cable to slay another rule that helps small ISPs compete

If you were in any doubt about how Big Cable feels about this, you need only consider the fact that the response of multi-billion-dollar corporations to this nimble market approach has not been to invest their vast profits in upgrading technologies or exchanges, or offer lower prices, or higher speeds, but to get their lobbyists in Washington DC to push to kill off the federal rule that makes that limited degree of competition possible.

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Big Cable? Never heard of it..

6 years ago
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same here, some casual googling did not get me out of ignorance

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It refers to very large multi-billion dollar ISP's. Same as 'Big Pharma' refering to multi-billion dollar drug companies.

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We have 3 big ones competing so we get cheap and fast for both home and mobile. They were forced to share the last kilometer already in copper times, but I think each is doing their own fiber.

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We have 3 big companies too, but all they do is making a cartel so they can offer the same speeds, caps and prices. There's no competition, most of Italy still don't have access to fiber cabling, mobile networks are capped with very low and expensive offers and when you actually get a decent pricing your contract will be remodulated within the next weeks with highier prices.

A french mobile ISP has recently opened its business here, but the big ones are lobbying against it, filing cases for the same shit that they do every time (misleading ads, low coverage, contracts not explained clearly enough, misuse of their terms of operation, etc).

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About the same prices here as well, but if one drops prices to snatch customers from others, they have to match it. Only very cheap mobile has any caps for the same reason.

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Here even though they drop the price it won't really matter much as they will increase it sometime later anyway. Just ask Vodafone customers, who had ALL of their monthly plans increased 2.5-4 eur in the last two months.

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Everyone raised prices because EU is slowly getting rid of roaming fees. So now we get to pay more even if never leaving the country to have 5-10GB EU data cap included. Just because the scam companies like yours still charge ours for it when we visit.

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No problems here.

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By all means, your personal bubble was my only area of concern.

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Yeah Cons love a free market as long as it means a market tightly controlled by big corporations screwing customers out of a healthy competition, with the help of bribed politicians. Freedom, yay!

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Good thing we got government out of Net Neutrality.wink

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Yep. My last apartment internet cost about $80 a month for basic 1mb/s download speeds. The price was insane in my opinion, but they could get away with it because there was no competition in the area.

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We have 3 big ISPs here and their prices, speed and services are aligned to the comma. But hey free market everybody.

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