[TriLUG] Net Neutrality again...

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote on 9/7/2017 3:30 PM:
> 2) regarding your point about it being irrelevant, I could not possibly
> disagree more strongly.  I have 6Mb DSL at my house just South of Chapel
> Hill.  In addition to being slow, it is horribly unreliable, but AT&T will
> not fix it.  My neighbors across the street have 768Kb DSL (yes, that's
> Kilobits). But I guess we could switch to a competitor, right?  But no!
> Because TWC/Charter has deemed it too expensive to serve our area, and AT&T
> would rather serve us out of a VRAD that's over 3 miles away than the one
> that's 3/4 mile away.  The neighborhood behind us has Charter, and they go
> right past our road.

Not to mention the successful lobbying effort in NC by the ISPs to limit
municipal broadband development.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/muni-isp-forced-to-shut-off-fiber-to-the-home-internet-after-court-ruling/

--[Lance]