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The Toll Net Neutrality Takes On The Internet, Summed Up In Three Paragraphs
From Pai’s speech:
Smaller, competitive providers have also been hit. For example, one small Arkansas ISP called Aristotle told Congress last year: ‘Before the [Title II Order] was adopted, it was our intention to triple our customer base’ and ‘cover a three-county area. However, we have pulled back on those plans, scaling back our deployment to three smaller communities that abut our existing network.’
Other small providers followed suit. KWISP Internet, which serves 475 customers in rural northern Illinois, delayed its plans to upgrade its network and increase consumers’ speeds from 3 Mbps to 20 Mbps. Wisper ISP, a provider that serves 8,000 customers around St. Louis, Missouri, also cut back its investments, resulting in slower speeds.
And just this week, 22 small ISPs, each of which has about 1,000 broadband customers or fewer, told the FCC that the Title II Order had ‘affected [their] ability to obtain financing.’ They said it had ‘slowed, if not halted, the development and deployment of innovative new offerings which would benefit our customers.’ And they said Title II hung ‘like a black cloud’ over their businesses.
All of you need to “drop Mr. Pai an little e-mail and tell him and his cohorts at the FCC to get off their worthless a$$es and DO SOMTHING to fix the rampant abuse by “telemarketers” of our nations citizens who have a phone.
Example:
Last night, in a space of less than five minutes, we had no less than SIX calls from “Suzie” advising that since she “thinks” we have stayed at one of “her properties” before, that we need to “push 1” to get our $100 “free gift certificate.” Mind you each incoming number was different and each one said “no caller ID, “not a valid number,” or “unvailable.” Even after I listened to the last one and “pushed 2” to be removed from their “list,” I got two more identical calls.
And FWIW, I would suggest that the FCC demand that AT&T fix the problem they themselves create by selling these people DID phone service that they use to abuse and harass AT&Ts average Joe phone and cell phone customers. We are to the point where our home phone ( now VOIP) is as a practical matter unusable because of the phalanx of incoming TM calls. We now generally let every call go to VM, and unlike cell phones, VIOP ( i.e. “wireline phones”) are difficult to block unwanted calls and there are limitations on just how many you can block once you figure out the arcane procedure for so doing. As of this writing, I have nearly as many “blocked callers” in the Contact List of my iPhone as I have legitimate Contacts. Do Not Call List my a$$! That’s the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the public by our government.
HOORAY Ajit Pai.