DROP EVERYTHING & TAKE ACTION!: Time to Launch Largest Protest the FCC Has Ever Seen

[mwooldri]

46. Nice idea in theory... can't happen here in practice.

Thousands of people have the choice of Comcast, Time Warner Cable (soon to be Comcast), AT&T or Verizon and they don't have any other choice. I have one choice - Time Warner Cable or nothing.

If enough people get on the FCC's back about this, then I'm certain this ruling will not be upheld.

The FCC needs to reclassify the Internet as a public utility now. When they classified them as a communications service, for most people it was Internet access on phone lines. Today, it's generally the other way around - people have dry DSL (Internet service and no traditional phone service) and use VoIP for their phone service. Or have cable Internet and nothing else (like me). Even the phone companies are turning your traditional phone service into one that operates over the top of the Internet.

I'd love to kick out the big telcos and go to a local provider... when one comes along that is. I like the idea of DIY broadband - where a community gets together and decides to raise their own funds and build out their own fibre network.