People keep saying killing net neutrality was bad...but has there been actually been anything tangible that came out of killing it?
So yeah, fairly substantial.
All of them? From your link, looks like it's ATT who did that.
Cox, my ISP, instituted a data cap before the repeal. Furthermore, data caps have zero to do with net neutrality. Preferential billing and routing based on source or destination is certainly more possible with a data cap but data caps are net neutral by themselves. Data caps are cancer but they aren't going anywhere unless there's competition. Competition may also make net neutrality, as a political issue, obsolete.
Net neutrality seems like a red herring to keep the telecom regulatory capture off the front page.
Edit to add: I've blown the cap in a 2 week period. It is ridiculous
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/15/europes-top-court-says-net...
This seemed like a good thing, but with the announce of WhatsApp sharing data with Facebook, many people have changed to Telegram or Signal. Some of them will return to WhatsApp because switching actually costs them money.
Like USA, Mexico was unable to stop legislation against net neutrality. The erosion it's just starting.
It certainly seems the free market was able to deal with it.
One thing I'm really happy with is how the FCC ran the $9.2 billion auction for the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) subsidies. Although I don't have hard numbers, my impression is that the USF (Universal Service Fund) is a typical government boondoggle, and the RDOF auction format was a pretty innovative way to distribute the funds.
For a minute there it looked like they would try to exclude SpaceX from bidding in the high bandwidth / low latency tier, but ultimately they went with taking a chance on their unproven tech and they were able to win $885 million in subsidies.
It is telling how much higher prices are in places where competition has been curtailed by the FCC's failures, and how much higher even prices where two services operate are, than in other countries. The number of states where towns have been forbidden to operate a municipal network also reveals our poor condition.
America is a third-world country in communication, just as it is in infant mortality. It is not accidental. There are reasons that a cable service is the most hated company in the US, more even than Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, or Koch Industries, which might deserve it more.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informa...
Your state has net neutrality.
https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...
But with the way the internet actually works, it’s not clear that state-level regulation can be effect in this area, since packets will frequently cross state lines.
In any case, it's not a business plan they can enact tomorrow, they have to build out the services first and they would be wise to boil the frog in order to avoid legislative attention.
Often these services are slow even though its the only internet traffic.