Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality Shell Game

I don't understand the headline, but the content is good.

It's about Wilson, NC's success in running their own lit fiber network; "lit" meaning they run the retail services too.

Notably they offer a pre-paid plan ($10 min deposit) for $1.15 a day, with an automated system to cut service, and is a phone call away to setup, cancel, or switch between the $40 montly offering.

In contrast to Comcast's gov't mandated "Internst Essentials", Wilson's public ISP offers 50Mbps/50Mbps, to Comcast's 20Mbps/2Mbps. And you can't even sign up if you have had a monthly plan in the past 90 days, or have owed money within the past year!

Repealing Net Neutrality would mostly be a non-issue if competition were possible.

Linked in the article [1] is San Fransisco's plan for laying "dark fiber", which, opposed to lit fiber, is strictly infastructure to be leased to ISPs offering services. This setup should largely mitigate NN worries, as there will be ISPs that can differentiate services based on it.

There are times I'd like to have potentially-anti-competitive zero-rating services, but only in the case there is a resonable neutral service available.