The FCC Is Getting Tons Of Net Neutrality Complaints

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Data shows that net neutrality complaints have rushed into the FCC since the rules took effect. The data doesn't show whether or not there were any net neutrality violations but it does demonstrate that people are fed-up with their service providers.

But it definitely sends a message that people -- who tend to go straight to the FCC, because companies are actually required to respond to them after 30 days -- are dissatisfied with their ISPs' and carriers' services. While 20,991 is a sizable chunk of all the internet-related submissions the FCC got, it's still quite small compared to all the phone-related concerns the commission fielded. Over the past year, the FCC received 169,975 telemarketing-related reports and 78,876 submissions complaining about robocalls.
 
The biggest issue imo is that internet connection providers are also content providers. ahem cable

Well that in combination with metered service.
 
I'm not entirely sure what needs to happen to the cable industry. But something needs to change.
 
I would really like to see a world where ISP's and Telecoms are not allowed to raise our rates to pay for their upgrades while they hoard mass profits feel free to correct me on this but I thought the whole point of a company making profits was so those profits could be used to fund expansion and development. I would also like to see a world where they are required to guarantee the speeds they are selling none of this over subscription baloney they get away with now. I also think that if an ISP is making a profit and has Billions in the bank they should not be allowed to ask for state/federal/provincial funding assistance I would really like to see how much tax payer money has been granted to ISP's to facilitate their upgrades while they simultaneously jack our rates to pay for those same upgrades only to turn around and post record profits for the year.
 
Lakados said:
I would really like to see a world where ISP's and Telecoms are not allowed to raise our rates to pay for their upgrades while they hoard mass profits feel free to correct me on this but I thought the whole point of a company making profits was so those profits could be used to fund expansion and development. I would also like to see a world where they are required to guarantee the speeds they are selling none of this over subscription baloney they get away with now. I also think that if an ISP is making a profit and has Billions in the bank they should not be allowed to ask for state/federal/provincial funding assistance I would really like to see how much tax payer money has been granted to ISP's to facilitate their upgrades while they simultaneously jack our rates to pay for those same upgrades only to turn around and post record profits for the year.
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You forgot about them also not making the upgrades they took money from the government to make.
 
Lakados said:
I would really like to see a world where ISP's and Telecoms are not allowed to raise our rates to pay for their upgrades while they hoard mass profits feel free to correct me on this but I thought the whole point of a company making profits was so those profits could be used to fund expansion and development.
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How would this line of reasoning apply to your life personally? What I mean is, do YOU follow this line of thought or do you do something different? Does your family operate in this way? How would a company be any different?

They exist to sap money, just like me and you try to do.....we just don't think it's bad when done on a personal level.
 
They are just as corrupt here. They also falsify data. I'm in a '5mbit zone' that gets 1000bps in peaks often. Or less.
I wonder how much of the map is in the same situation as me.

Only way to find out is awareness but it seems like plenty of people bitch about it.

Good to see some positive news involving FCC for once though.
 
As a first step, I would like a simple law that says bandwidth that occurs in off-peak hours (like 1-3am every tuesday and thursday) can not ever count towards a data cap.

patches, updates, game downloads, torrents, whatever, could be automated to run at this time to no one's actual detriment. I suggested this to my isp to no avail.
 
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