3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai says in final report

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6 points·TangerineDream··6 comments

He is wrong. 20 Mb/s is barely adequate. Pai's opinion may be informed by requirements that telcos and others provide "high speed internet" and they can only provide 3 Mb/s without making a considerable investment.

Raw speed is not the only issue. When I was living in "semi-rural" Montana, the constraint on performance had to do with the number of sessions. When the DSLAM ran out of session slots, a session was simply dropped in favor of the most recent one. Movie night became a nightmare of disjointed video fragments and irritating reconnects for everyone.

I just want all infrastructure to be made into a public utility so I can pick the network service provider of my own choice.

Strongly disagree. It might be ok for one person with one or two devices you don't use at the same time

Otherwise, no, strongly disagree

Pretty difficult for streaming to compete with cable services for entertainment

I always wonder why more politicians aren't like "We need to tear down the Comcasts of the world, not because of my left/right wing ideology, but because they're crap".

Ideologically I like the free market as much as the next Capitalist, but I wouldn't shed many tears over that kind of intervention.

Because Comcast pays you a lot of money and has a lot of marketing (=lying) potential. If their money doesn't convince you, Comcast can easily fund a lying campaign saying that you are forcing them to raise prices and they'd have to pass them onto customers which means you won't have any voters.

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