[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My take: consider any of the big companies like At&T or Verizon. Currently they are expanding their footprints to attract customers - enter the government telling them they can’t recoop those costs by providing an extra boost in power to a large insurance company that wants to update all servers at night, or to accommodate a business that wants faster internet and are willing to pay extra for it. Now the gov tells them the ghetto rats get the same speed as that “willing to pay for it” private business. How much more expansion/updating do you think the provider is going to do in the future?

[ExTxMarine]

Now the gov tells them the ghetto rats get the same speed as that “willing to pay for it” private business. How much more expansion/updating do you think the provider is going to do in the future?

Same thing happened when the government forced all phone companies to open their comm-centers and cell towers to cheap-cost, low-service phone service providers like Click, and MetroPCS, etc... The big companies stopped expanding, and instead started investing in just better services, because they had to give access to existing technology to these government-created scavengers! At GTE (now Verizon), they stopped expanding and instead started developing their 4G LTE network (because NEW services didn't have to be sold to these little companies at a loss, like the existing services). Existing services had to be sold to these small companies for pennies on the dollar, so that these new companies could offer services to the "under-served."

Basically, US Government regulations STOPPED the expansion into those "under-served" areas, because the government wanted more taxes collected, so they created a cheap competitor to the large corporations! IDIOTS!

[1010RD]

What was wrong with the Internet so far. This is a regulation for a suggested future wrong. It hasn’t occurred or caused problems to date.