The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less::The Federal Communications Commission has passed new digital discrimination rules that hold telecom providers accountable for not providing equal internet access.

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Because the bigger problem is ownership of the infrastructure. Monopoly or not, one of the companies owns the line

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Well there is precedent to that. When the us government allowed At&t to dominate the internet markt and then followed it by a huge court case against them until eventually the CEO of AT&T eventually agreed to the division of the company in smaller regional ares of operations.

So they centralised it and then forced them to divide. If we are basically there already then just let them merge so you can prosecute them

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So make it a public utility perhaps considering it’s so critical these days

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Because the bigger problem is ownership of the infrastructure. Monopoly or not, one of the companies owns the line

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Someone doesn’t understand what eminent domain is. Sad.

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