One Frightening Chart Shows What You Might Pay For Internet Once Net Neutrality Is Gone

[Swede Atlanta]

21. They are de facto monopolies.....

I live in Atlanta, a major metropolitan area.

The reality is I only have two choices, ATT and Comcast. I work from home and require high speed access to the internet. That reduces my choice to Comcast. ATT DSL simply doesn't come close to the speeds I get on cable.

Yes there are other small providers such as Charter, etc. but their service doesn't even come close to ATT.

So now Comcast will be free to charge me extra if I want to access say a foreign news website or a social media site, etc. Trust me their bean counters are as we speak looking at how they can rape the American consumer even more than they do now.

We need a change in the law to classify internet service as an essential service, a commodity just as we have electricity. People will argue you don't need access to the internet. Bullpucky. Nearly everything you do today requires you provide an e-mail address.

Almost every commercial or government service has reduced their "physical" presence and driven people to the internet. So you are handicapping people without access to the internet for things as basic as submitting a change of address on a driver's license. Online it is done in 5 minutes. In person you have to drive to the ever smaller number of DMV sites and given so much has been pushed to the internet stand in line to speak to the 1 or 2 people working there.