#internet monopoly

[socialjusticefail]

The FCC Is “Looking Into” Shitty, Technically Unnecessary Broadband Usage Caps

For many, many years we’ve pointed out that broadband usage caps are hugely profitable bullshit, used by regional telecom monopolies to rip

This article talks about the FCC looking into broadband internet usage caps. I hope this means this will eliminate these caps in places where they are not needed at all.

[talk-and-tech-bytes]

Shentel files for Blacksburg franchise; Comcast continuing Christiansburg push

Shentel has filed for a Blacksburg cable franchise as Comcast continues to increase its Christiansburg presence.

This article reports that Shentel is making a move towards breaking into the Blacksburg market, as an internet and cable provider. The article cites increased consumer access to wireless internet, and increased consumer choice as positive outcomes that may rise out of Shentel’s presence. The issues that customers are experiencing with tech monopolies ties back to Wajcman’s assessment of the way technologies are introduced into domestic markets. In her book, she says that domestic products like washing machines, microwaves, and other tech are first created for utilitarian industrial use, and then altered for domestic use. However, these alterations are not always enough, and the technologies can remain impractical for use in the domestic sphere. For this example, a one size fits all plan for cable and wireless Internet is serviceable for businesses, who profit off their use and can afford it. Domestic customers have different budgets and lifestyles that may make the current system of cable monopoly insufficient.

[decodetheunwritten]

Of course Google is in favor of net neutrality. They want the next big thing to come out of nowhere and blow them out of the water so they can buy it out, slowly coming to own the entire internet one popular website at a time.