Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

“Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today’s meeting.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it’ll not have a data cap, plus they’re going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime…and you’re not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        I had comcast business class for many years at my old house. When I downsized to my condo, I’m at the mercy of the HOA. They have comcast communities and I can’t get business class. Its not terrible but I had to pay $20/mo to upgrade to 1000mb down just to get decent upload speeds. I wish we had a local company USI, that sells fiber internet for very reasonable prices and no data caps. My son’s building has it. I moved my plex server to my friend’s house who is on USI as well just to keep my bandwidth consumption down.

        • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I have USI for the first time after having delt with charter my whole life. It just worked. I plugged my router into the wall and the cat5 jack that was already laid in, and it just worked. Within seconds of opening my account. As advertised.

          Usually charter sends some asshole who’s definitely sober and not on any lists to do awful things to your wall. Then the speeds you do get are just straight criminal.

          Love my USI. It’s the way an ISP should be. Now if we could just slice the price to something more reasonable.

          • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            At my son’s place, the person that was renting from the previous owner did not use the provided USI but instead paid for CenturyLink, USI had to come and rewire to the patch panel in the utility closet. The tech was great.

        • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          At least yoi are not at mercy of managment company. I don’t know how in USSA, but here before ammendments to Communication Law, you had to initiate general homeowners meeting and vote to allow ISP to place their equipment in condo/multi-flat unit/whatever you call it. The hardest part was not getting votes for it, but getting enough people to vote.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
        English
        8·
        2 months ago

        If you have a business line you’re still 100% getting a script reader. They just come without a foreign accent.

        • spikederailed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Unfortunately mostly true. I worked for Charter Business, and was told I was “being too helpful”. They only want people who read off the script. I moved over to the CCST group before they killed that off. I’m so happy to be away from there, that place was soul sucking.

            • spikederailed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I had an enterprise fiber side that I just bailed on and quit the place without notice(or another job lined up). It was genuinely soul crushing andi don’t regret my decision. Granted 3 years later I make more than double the pay with less headache.

        • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          When I supported the network at work, with many ISPs across the US… It depends on the Telco.

          Comcast Business, was hand down the best Telco when it comes to business lines from my experience. At&t and Verizon were the script readers, having to argue everything to get them to do anything. Many of the cable companies, just had terrible everything. CenturyLink was very good, but awful support portal.

      • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        If I could get that for $43 a month out the door sure, but that is not happening from FIOS anytime soon.

        Maybe if you are in the $100+ a month crew it’s a few dollars more, but I do doubt that.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Give them a call, you’d be surprised what the business line crew will do to get customers. I had a line for $60 a month that was unlimited. Doesn’t hurt to check and haggle.

      • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’m curious where you are that a business line doesn’t cost more than a residential one because in my area it’s three times as much. I am fortunate enough that I get symmetrical gigabit for $90 a month and although they don’t promise static IP my IP has not changed in a while.

        If I wanted to get a real static IP I would have to upgrade to a business line It would cost $280 a month.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          In the 3 different states that I’ve lived in, each has had business lines that allowed me to haggle with them, granted I was slightly outside of the city and I’m sure they had way less business class customers, they did haggle with me. 3 years is all I had to commit to, to get the price down to sub $100. One location I was paying just $60.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        None of my local ISPs have data caps on regular home internet plans. Y’all just need better ISPs.

        100Mb symmetrical fiber is about $40-50 and Gigabit is about $80/mo from ours

  • Juice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    2 months ago

    Woo! At least until the next Republican Party is ready for an easy paycheck

  • nytrixus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    2 months ago

    This is perhaps some of the best news I’ve read and heard about for a while.

    It was scary close, though. It could’ve gone either way.

    Go ahead, prepare your fucking lawsuit, lobbyists. We collectively should be suing you, for all of the times you lied your ass off about spreading broadband to areas you PROMISED you’d bring service to!

        • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          FCC Chairwoman who made this happen. She was also there voting against Ajit (Shit Pie) Pai when he pushed to overturn Obama era net neutrality back in 2017. She also initially set up the net neutrality rules during the Obama admin. She can be credited for fighting this fight for many years now on our behalf.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    Dems have only had control of the FCC for a few months. It’s nice to see the regulators actually regulating, and not caving to corporate lobbyists.

  • quantumfoam@lemmy.world
    English
    12·
    2 months ago

    It probably wont be too long until the greedy bastards try to roll back this, wait a few years. Access to information really needs to be a basic right that cannot be toggled on and off depending on who is sitting on the fcc.

    • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      They are - surprise, surprise - the only two Republicans…

      • Brendan Carr - 2017 Trump appointee
      • Nathan Simington - 2020 Trump appointee
  • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Does this stop phone companies from forcing 360p videos on mobile data or blocking me from using my mobile data as a hotspot at full speed?