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If Comcast starts sucking, 5G and other competitors are going to eat their lunch. If users hate throttling and uneven networks, someone will swoop in with a better product. Example: T-mobile and Sprint forcing companies like Verizon to start offering unlimited plans again.

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I suspect not. Building a network is a huge investment and there will only ever be a limited number of these access points and its likely they will be profit focused. Also we are seeing increased corporate consolidation so if anything the internet companies will hover up more access point for a greater oligopoly.

I suspect this will more be a limited window of profit taking until another election cycle (or several) where a new president/party brings back net neutrality. I cant see this being forgotten as an issue in our generations and its an easy piece to legislate on if the motivation is there.

not likely or it would have already happened. Comcast and other ISP have consistently rated among the top of most hated companies by its customer base. I would love to tell comcast to F off but I have no choice to keep them as they are the ONLY ISP that offer Fast Internet in my area like much of the rest of the country.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/350979/comcast-is-americas-most-h... BTW sprint is also listed among the most hated.

5G is going to solve this. You’ll affix a transmitter/receiver to a window of your house and you can bypass your cable company.

The point still stands, if a company is introducing fast lanes and slow lanes and it is making enough customers angry enough, a competitor will swoop in and take their business.

Take an extreme example of Comcast only allowing HD streaming of Comcast owned programming and throttling the rest. That would be so bad that folks would cancel Comcast, which would provide an opportunity for a non atrocious company to displace them.

As things currently stand, Comcast is good enough that a competitor can’t “out customer service” them to displace them.

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