It's not going to be an immediate apocalypse. Keep pressure on Congress if you are stuck in the damnable USA. Everyone needs to keep an eagle eye on their ISPs, and speak out against their business practices as they become noticeable. Ugh the follies of a Capitalist society :\ Capitalism is the best and worst thing humanity has ever invented. Free market is essentially anarchy. It only takes one company to be in control to set the rules.
I am going to pipe in here and say that I don't think the prices are going to raise. Instead, companies are going to start competing against each other so more than likely, prices are actually going to drop. This is probably because (I think) net neutrality was locking internet providers at a set price. edit: Am I the only one here that's actually doing research?
stop shilling for apocalypse nothing bad is going to happen as a matter of actual fact, they will get better, in all likelihood
Great, just great. Now I'm 101% certain that getting out of America and moving elsewhere is going to be beneficial to my sanity. People here are just gullible and choose the worst people on the planet to make the laws.
But the bad part is that it keeps even getting to congress in the first place. There's zero reason it should ever have even got that far.
I kinda doubt that, although I would love to be wrong. More than likely prices of your basic packages won't go up either though. They will just have limited access. Basically it is probably going to end up being a mess and depending on which ISP you have will determine your speeds on particular websites that pertain to that ISP's competition like Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, Youtube (those are the obvious ones). You can have one that's fast, but unless you appease all the ISP's, you can't have them all fast... or at all in some cases... or at least that's how it used to be before 2015.
I highly doubt that the internet will be limited because of this. I'm pretty sure that Cox actually limited their downloads to 1 terabyte a month because of net neutrality.
Who is Cox? and 1TB a month?! Even before this gets repealed mine isn't that high... mine gets limited after something like 20GB's already. I come pretty close to maxing that out every month with 6 people living in my house.
comcast gave us 1tb a month, then boosted it to 1.5tb a month, but we'd already switched to at&t, which has no data cap, or we could've paid an additional $50/m for no cap we had been using upwards of 4TB because we didn't have cable so we only streamed but now we do have tv and it's less and our speed is worse and it's dsl instead of broadband so my torrent seeding can't suck up as much as they used to
Wow... that's... that's a lot! 4TB's... A month?! I don't even know if I can download a TB in a month. What is your connections speed? It must be crazy high. Mine is on the high end (for my area as there is nothing better) at 6 Megabits/sec. Yes, Megabits, not Megabytes, there is a difference.
with comcast, it was 75mbps down, 25mbps up I mean, I'm just going by what they say we used there are plenty of people who take issue with that reading dunno what we use now with at&t, 45mbps down, 10mbps up, I'm basically always seeding at 2-5mbps
There's no companies to compete though... AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast/their partners are all. Few Americans actually have a choice, something like 15%. Where I live it's either Verizon or a couple companies owned by or partnered with Comcast. If the repeal works as the FCC claims it will, then no big deal. But there is too much of a monopoly for it to work that way. I see no reason for prices to go up noticeably, the issue is stuff like what happened about 5 years ago when Comcast limited Netflix's speed because of how much data they were taking up. They basically held Netflix at ransom. Netflix was huge in preventing the repeal last time, but now they are a big enough company to pay those ransoms and have stepped to the side this time. If something like that happened to a smaller company now, that company would have a no choice but to accept their limited internet presence. With how important that is to many small businesses, things can get bad. Let's say that hypothetically a large company like Amazon decided that they don't want competition and threw some money at Comcast to finegle with Walmart's internet store speed... This will help the big companies get bigger, it won't help competition.
Canada here i come (to the person who rated this informative: are you coming to follow me and watch me or something?)
