The title seems to be loaded. Aren't those broadband organizations / associations?
The regulation proposed by the NY is also strange. If you want to help low-income families to access internet, why don't you just pay their internet bills directly? Or, just to give them money and they can choose where to spend it?
> The regulation proposed by the NY is also strange. If you want to help low-income families to access internet, why don't you just pay their internet bills directly?
A simple model for why the Internet is so pricey in USA is that providers made a deal with government that ISP are investing into infrastructure while government passes laws favorite to leading ISPs. Those laws make competition uneven, so existing ISPs enjoy monopolistic market.
From this model, government doesn't see a point in paying for bills high prices it helped to create. Better adjust laws.
If the ISPs win i hope they start giving grants for non-profit community ISPs (or some other way to replace / compete with the ones so against low prices after years of subsidies and broken promises. Though, it does seem odd to force them to have low rates. (not to mention all the people without connection to those ISPs). Surely they could have come up with something, or maybe things are so messed up with subsidies etc that they figured why not.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadThe regulation proposed by the NY is also strange. If you want to help low-income families to access internet, why don't you just pay their internet bills directly? Or, just to give them money and they can choose where to spend it?
A simple model for why the Internet is so pricey in USA is that providers made a deal with government that ISP are investing into infrastructure while government passes laws favorite to leading ISPs. Those laws make competition uneven, so existing ISPs enjoy monopolistic market.
From this model, government doesn't see a point in paying for bills high prices it helped to create. Better adjust laws.
New York and Spectrum recently fought a battle over false advertising.
And this was the result: substantial compensation to existing customers and promises to build more infrastructure.