Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the only answer

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cries in having a for-profit, NYSE traded electric utility

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• GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The internet should be entirely decentralized. We have the technology.

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  • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The internet IS decentralized.

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not nearly as much as it should be. In many places certain ISPs have near monopolies over internet access, and domains and dns used on the web are managed by ICANN. Sure, there’s alternatives to that, but barely anyone knows or uses them

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      • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not to mention things like Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP.

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      • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Companies having a monopoly over access to the internet doesn’t change the fact that the Internet as a whole is decentralized.

        That being said, yes, something should be done about ISPs.

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    • rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol. Net neutrality and FCCs Ajit Pai. Educate yourself bra.

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      • fapforce5@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think you understand what decentralized means

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• red_pigeon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Won’t they start pulling more and more tax for it then ? Having it private keeps the competition at least, wouldn’t you agree ?

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your taxes already subsidize it. You just don’t see any benefits for your money in the current system.

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  • eating3645@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ISPs in the US are notorious for getting public funds for services that they never provide, so I wouldn’t be too concerned about that.

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    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. They’re getting massive handouts from our money. Let’s cut out the middlemen and pay a utility directly.

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  • jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What competition? Tax me and give me fucking municipal fiber instead of giving giant paychecks to wealthy assholes who invest nothing in improving the service but raise everyone’s rates regardless.

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  • marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes competition. I get to choose between two providers, charter and at&t. Same price, about the same speeds.

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  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not where I live. All private Internet, but very limited choices that all keep getting more and more expensive.

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They also tend to deliberately stay out of each other’s service areas so they can ramp up prices with de facto local monopolies.

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  • rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please tell us how “keeping it private” ensures competition and prevents monopolies. For extra credit, let us know WHO is responsible for preventing monopolies.

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    • red_pigeon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where did I say it prevents monopolies ?

      Where I’m from if it goes public I’m sure the govt is going to take advantage of it with piss poor speeds. When it’s private, at least there are companies competing with decent speeds even though it’s expensive. It’s a choice between the lesser of two evils.

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      • rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where I’m from private is slower, more expensive, capped, and throttled. Public is faster, cheaper, unlimited and unregulated. And private lobby’s/bribes politicians to put laws in place preventing public.

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess to answer that, wonder if your water, electric, or waste companies are gouging you. If they are, like in Texas, then yeah maybe?

    Everywhere I lived, people and voting have strong control over utilities and they are fairly priced because it’s a service not a business

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  • Montagge@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where I use to live was all private. CenturyLink was the only option as they had an agreement with Comcast that Comcast wouldn't come into my area.

    I paid $60/month for 500kbps down. Yes kilobits.

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• Neon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hm, i didn’t think about that yet, this is actually a pretty interesting thought.

  I think we as a society need to have a debate about this.

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• Bocky@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The internet is free and public. You can go to any mcdonalds and go all the internetting you want. At home, its all the buried cabled that have to be checked on and maintained that you have to pay for.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lmfao you think they actually maintain that shit? They dont check on it, that’s part of the problem.

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