Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps

The business case is quite obvious here: with net neutrality in place, the carriers could not make a lot of money on their circuits, because they could not differentiate, and charge publishers. But now they can, so it suddenly makes a lot of sense to deploy more internet to rural areas. But.. packaging it as an FCC policy change, and thus being able to apply public funds toward that deployment is even better! Screw the public on multiple fronts:

- charge content publishers for bandwidth used by their customers (the cost of which content publishers will pass on)

- charge end-users for 'premium' services

- charge some end-users extra for overages (yes all family members are streaming Netflix separately..)

- use tax dollars to deploy more bandwidth - even though all service providers have been doing that throughout the 90s and 2000s while growing wildly.

And this is how consumers will pay multiple times for the same content. Ever wondered why Netflix is suddenly raising prices, and Youtube is introducing paid memberships?

EDIT: formatting

Hope it doesn't affect my gigabit fiber here in northwest Kansas.