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Ignoring millions of consumers who believe the decision is a bad idea that only benefits the nation"s biggest, wealthiest telecom companies, the FCC is poised to vote to kill net neutrality protections sometime in the next few months. In a country where even getting people to understand what net neutrality is remains a steep uphill climb, protestors are gearing up to make some noise as D-Day for net neutrality looms. More than 21 million Americans have filed comments on the FCC"s plan, the overwhelming majority of which oppose what Ajit Pai is doing.
The FCC seems dead set on killing net neutrality, but they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents, said Evan Greer, campaign director for Fight for the Future, one of the protest s organisers.
With this day of advocacy, we re harnessing the power of the web to make it possible for ordinary internet users to meet directly with their senators and representatives to tell their stories, and make sure that lawmakers hear from the public, not just lobbyists for AT&T and Verizon, Greer said.
The decision to classify ISPs as common carriers under Title II is, you"ll recall, the only way the FCC has the authority to protect consumers from harm. ISPs have not only been lobbying relentlessly to reverse that classification, but to effectively gut oversight of the industry entirely. With neither competition nor regulatory pressure holding these ISPs accountable, the end result would be higher prices, worse service, and slower speeds for millions of American consumers.
In addition to pushing for the repeal of the FCC"s rules, large ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are also lobbying Congress to pass a new net neutrality law. Why? They know the current Congress is so cash-compromised, large ISP lawyers will be the ones writing it -- ensuring that any new law is notably weaker than the rules currently on the books. There"s only one real beneficiary to repealing the FCC"s widely popular net neutrality rules -- and it isn"t you. read comment(s)
As we recently noted, most major wireless carriers are charging consumers $10 per month just to connect the new Apple Watch Series 3 to users" existing wireless plans. But users note that T-Mobile recently added an additional wrinkle to the mix, indicating it would be throttling all connectivity to the "LTE" capable watch to just 512 kbps for users on the company"s T-Mobile One family plans.
To avoid the toll and actually obtain the LTE speeds the device is technically capable of, T-Mobile planned to force users to sign up for the company"s "High Speed Data with paired DIGITS" plan. DIGITS cost users $25 per month without autopay, and $20 per month with Autopay -- effectively a $10 to $15 premium just to use the device as intended.
California politicians have sided with major ISPs like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast in voting to kill a new broadband privacy law in the state. The law was intended to replace FCC broadband privacy rules killed by the GOP and Trump administration earlier this year that would have forced companies like Comcast to transparently indicate how your private data is being sold -- and who it"s being sold to. It also would have banned ISPs from charging you significantly more money to opt out of such data collection, an idea already explored by both Comcast and AT&T.
The EFF had praised the law as an excellent template for states interested in standing up to giant ISPs and protecting broadband consumer privacy, but California politicians sent a very clear message this wasn"t something they were on board with,
"In the dead of night, the California Legislature shelved legislation that would have protected every Internet user in the state from having their data collected and sold by ISPs without their permission," said the EFF in a blog post in the wake of the vote. "By failing to pass A.B. 375, the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast over the privacy rights of their constituents."
Among other things, the law would have required that consumers opt in before ISPs are allowed to collect and sell more private personal data, including browsing activity and financial data. In this instance, large ISPs like AT&T and Comcast lobbied hand in hand with "new economy" companies like Google and Facebook to kill the law, all of them collectively worried that empowered, informed consumers would dent billions in advertising revenues.
It is extremely disappointing that the California legislature failed to restore broadband privacy rights for residents in this state in response to the Trump Administration and Congressional efforts to roll back consumer protection, EFF Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon said. Californians will continue to be denied the legal right to say no to their cable or telephone company using their personal data for enhancing already high profits. Perhaps the legislature needs to spend more time talking to the 80% of voters that support the goal of A.B. 375 and less time with Comcast, AT&T, and Google"s lobbyists in Sacramento.
Other states have passed their own versions of broadband privacy laws in the wake of the GOP and Trump decision earlier this year, though the current FCC has hinted they may explore ways to hamstring these efforts. read comment(s)
With reports indicating that AT&T is planning a major new streaming video platform focused on wireless for launch in 2018, AT&T DirecTV and IPTV (formerly U-Verse) customers in our forums wonder if AT&T will ultimately take the axe to its traditional pay TV options and fully embrace "over the top" video alternatives.
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A million pay TV customers cut the TV cord last quarter and the trend only accelerating, but Charter CEO Tom Rutledge continues to believe there"s nothing to worry about. Charter lost another 90,000 video customers last quarter thanks to the slow but steady rise in cord cutting, as well as the company"s bungled acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Worse customer service and higher rates than ever are driving these users away from the company, something Rutledge clearly wanted to downplay in comments to analysts and the media.
Clearly, the market has shifted to some extent, Rutledge admitted. The whole multi-channel video market is shrinking at a slow rate, which is mostly price driven in my opinion. And you have new competitors; so far they had been relatively insignificant in terms of their impact on the marketplace.
And while the highest paid CEO in America acknowledged that much of this consumer disdain is "price driven," he omitted the fact he"s the one driving that particular bus. Users in acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks markets have been having been complaining for months that Charter is now charging them 40% more money for the same service post-merger. Cities like Lexington have been holding town halls in the futile attempt to hold the company accountable.
The CEO expressed an outsized optimism regarding the company"s new set top box cable guide, and its ability to increase the "perception of value" among Charter subscribers.
The two-way video on demand platform and how state-of-the-art user interface can affect the perception of value in all of the content that we have is better now than it was previously, claimed the CEO.
So, our assets actually work better in a two-way on demand world than they did in a linear world from a value perception perspective relative to competitors. And I think we have a big advantage against satellite going forward that is even more pronounced now than it was a few years ago, Rutledge added.
In the real world, it"s not clear that a better cable box GUI is going to be enough to protect Charter from market evolutions to come. What Charter needs to do is shore up its abysmal customer service, stop lagging on broadband upgrades (Charter"s well behind every major cable operator in terms of DOCSIS 3.1 upgrades), and lower prices -- none of which appear to be happening anyway soon. In large part because the highest paid executive in America appears largely out of touch with the realities of a shifting market. read comment(s)
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