Corporations lobbying against Net Neutrality in one chart

[grahamhgreen]

[wandy]

1. Verizon, Comcast, ATT&T, can you say water monopoly.........

Just one question....
Will DU be bundled with Free Republic and ESPN or Fox News and Disney.

[grahamhgreen]

2. Du? $20/mo.. Free Republic, fox? Free!

[cascadiance]

3. I wonder if Verizon wants to move their cell networks more to go through the internet now...

... so that cell phone traffic could be argued to no longer be classified as being carried through traditional "common carrier" links that subject it to those restrictions we already have in place.

I recall when this anti Net Neutrality stuff started to come down a year ago was when I got a cell signal repeater device from Credo so that I could get better Sprint signals on my cell which is bad in the area I lived. It just occurred to me then that either Frontier, or Comcast (if I had them instead of Frontier) could start gouging me for fees for running cell traffic through their internet pipes without net neutrality.

Maybe Verizon sees that as a means to move not only internet traffic but their whole cell network to going through WiFi and other non-cell tower means of transmission, which is why they are at the top of the list here.

[grahamhgreen]

4. That's an amazing point, as we can all see the day when the vast majority of phone calls are carried

over the internet.

[cascadiance]

5. I've been trying to tell Credo this each time I talk to them, as they should be a good advocate...

... to fight this potential shift too, being a good liberal outfit, and directly dependent on this with the service they are selling too.

All DUers who have Credo should remind them of this when they talk to them as a place where they need to emphasize their opposition to this representing BOTH their interests, and the wider interests of the Americans they traditionally represent as well.

[grahamhgreen]

6. What I would love to see is the Post Office offer wireless internet. We could hve bought T-mobile

for a measly 20b just a few years ago....

But you're right, I should switch to Credo....