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FCC votes down net neutrality 3-2
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<blockquote data-quote="trunks2k" data-source="post: 72100736" data-attributes="member: 24431"><p>To be fair, the franchise agreements make some level of sense, especially in more rural areas. It costs a lot to lay down the infrastructure for internet services, and a company isn't going to spend the money doing so unless there's some sort of insurance that they'll get the business. So it's either one provider or no provider. Unfortunately, some local governments/providers took it too far. Verizon, for example, got an agreement to put in FIOS around here. The local government said "sure, but you have to put it EVERYWHERE, not just in certain neighborhoods". So Verizon went and put it in the more profitable neighborhoods first, and then stopped, ignoring the whole city mandate because the penalty was stupidly negligible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trunks2k, post: 72100736, member: 24431"] To be fair, the franchise agreements make some level of sense, especially in more rural areas. It costs a lot to lay down the infrastructure for internet services, and a company isn't going to spend the money doing so unless there's some sort of insurance that they'll get the business. So it's either one provider or no provider. Unfortunately, some local governments/providers took it too far. Verizon, for example, got an agreement to put in FIOS around here. The local government said "sure, but you have to put it EVERYWHERE, not just in certain neighborhoods". So Verizon went and put it in the more profitable neighborhoods first, and then stopped, ignoring the whole city mandate because the penalty was stupidly negligible. [/QUOTE]
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