- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- politics@beehaw.org
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to eliminate a rule that requires Internet service providers to list all of their so-called “passthrough” fees on an easily accessible broadband price label. The FCC vote could also make the price labels themselves a bit harder for consumers to find.
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills. One method of raising monthly bill prices above advertised rates is to tack on fees that, ISPs claim, are used to offset charges imposed by local governments.
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Everyone knows opaque markets work the best. Brilliant display of regulatory skill from the party of fiscal responsibility.
FUUUUCK I hate these “hologram” stock photos where the text isn’t reversed. So I’m supposed to believe that the user is looking at a reversed image??
That’s just how magical it is, the text flips for everyone reading it.
Gotta own those libs, right? /s
this is one that i directly appreciated. the transparent bottom-line pricing was refreshing.
Jesus.
In the European Union all ISPs market their connections based on maximum speed. However, the law requires them to meet at least 90% of that maximum advertised speed throughout the entire year (might slightly vary between countries), with some room for error. If they don’t - easy lawsuit.
Internet is also usually extremely cheap. In my country you can get it as cheap as $8/month, with very good (>=500Mb/s download) connections rarely exceeding $25 USD monthly. Hell, you can get an 8Gb/s download cable for just a little over $40/month.
$8 ?
Same here. Romania
I get 500Mbps for about 10 euro
cries in German
Canada, I can’t get 500 but I can get 360Mbps for CAD83
Europe always forgetting about the shareholders. How’s the c suite going to afford their third yacht and their fourth mansion charging those prices?
In any decent civilization, someone as evil and corrupt and stupid as Brendan Carr would be taken to a remote destination and beaten into a chunky soup
even more reason to stop using American services.
Where can I sign up for Canadian Internet in my US State?
by leaving, hope this helps :)
If every American who was being harmed by this admin moved to Canada you’d be amazed how quickly Canada would be come anti-immigrant.
just bolt like a coward instead of making your country better
Are all Canadians like you? How dreadful.
It doesn’t, at all
Right…
Biden Bad, so therefore anything Donvict does == doubleplusgood.
Don’t talk to me about any facts, I don’t want to hear 'em!
I cant tell which side this is parodying anymore.
If you don’t get the reference, you should read 1984.
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills.
I wonder if there is any other countries where you will not know how much you’ll have to pay for internet until after you’ve signed a contract.
or that they add new service charge, because they added something your subscription without consent. like how comcast constantly changes the tier of your cable services often.
How does Fox News spin this one then?
They’ll blame it on Biden or Obama if they need to.
Conservatives fucking blamed 9/11 on Obama before.
and adding Hillary into mix too.
They don’t really need to spin, they either talk about Democrats in a negative way, glaze Trump like he’s their God, or they just don’t cover it at all.
This one probably falls into the “just don’t talk about it” category. If Reich wing media doesn’t cover a story MAGA never finds out about it
Wonder if my provider will appreciate me not paying any fees that weren’t included in the listed price
Yet another day in Trump‘s world of “how can I make everyone’s life shittier? how can I HURT literally everyone on the planet for no good reason?”
Another day of republican philosophy in practice: cause pain just because
Desperate people are easier to control
ISPs: we wanna charge a bunch of bullshit fees so we can lie to customers about what our prices are. Biden: Sure! But you’ll have to come up with names for the fees. Trump: Sure!
This one of those things that looks awful because the current regime decided to stop whatever flimsy fig leaf the dems had insisted on when they did pretty much the same thing.
They were already doing it before the Biden requirements.
Source: I worked at a carrier and had to explain their bills to people daily.
The information disclosure was significantly different for consumers even though the bill didn’t really change, they just had to actually breakdown the fees and surcharges, they couldn’t hide it all blindly under “the government says we have to collect this”.
