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Analysis of broadband affordability deemed "extraneous" by FCC chair.

The Federal Communications Commission is ditching Biden-era standards for measuring progress toward the goal of universal broadband deployment.

The changes will make it easier for the FCC to give the broadband industry a passing grade in an annual progress report. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's proposal would give the industry a thumbs-up even if it falls short of 100 percent deployment, eliminate a long-term goal of gigabit broadband speeds, and abandon a new effort to track the affordability of broadband.

Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed "on a reasonable and timely basis" to all Americans. If the answer is no, the US law says the FCC must "take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market."

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[-] [email protected] 322 points 4 days ago

I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.

[-] [email protected] 123 points 4 days ago

It takes so long to fix everything, too!

[-] [email protected] 81 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah well, clearly it wasn't fixed fast enough so we should vote back in the people that break everything. Or decide that we shouldn't vote at all like the lazy sacks of shit we are.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Propaganda is a hell of a drug

[-] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

This is the part that bothers me so much about everything that is being dismantled right now. It took forever to get it to where it is, and it still needed a lot of improvement. And it was just smashed seemingly overnight.

It's like a sandcastle. Takes forever to build a good one, and it takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.

Absolutely. The last one to just go "lol nah" and demolish the working class this hard was Reagan, and we were still reaping the fallout from those asinine policies when 2016 hit!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

We had never actually fixed any of the shit that Reagan broke. They kept doing more of the same stuff he had started

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

If only we could chart that and see which political party is in charge at which points, and then never vote for the one that puts us here ever again... Oh well

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

It’s because USA has nukes my friend. The only way your enemies can attack you is through asymmetric warfare, mostly by corrupting your political system so that you attack yourself.

If you’ve wondered why everything looks like a coup since he got in, perhaps it is because it is one.

https://lemmy.world/post/31401705

https://youtu.be/AaKFx5rxdmA

https://smartelections.us/

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

And if you’re wondering why Democrats like Tim Walz are not even interested in investigating it themselves, well, the existence of certain files and whether or not they are disclosed could have something to do with that.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago

10 years from now USA is gonna be a 3rd world country with all these cuts.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

Trump was always obsessed with "shit hole countries". Now he's turning the US into one of them.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Rich people hate equality because that means they need to share.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Not even gonna take 10 years. By the end of Spray Tan's term the country is gonna be a complete toilet.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Assuming he doesn't find a way to stay in office indefinitely.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

It's already a 3rd world country, has been for some time now.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Say it with me people.

Seperate infrastructure and service!

If the companies responsible for laying cable and wires weren't tied to a single brand we'd instantly break the monopolies by town that we currently have. They would also focus on maintaining the infrastructure and growing the network instead of the profits going elsewhere.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

From a Swede with gigabit internet: didn't you Americans already give a lot of money to your ISPs to build fiber? Maybe time to demand a ROI?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Please don't remind me.
I wish these companies would all just go bankrupt and die already.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There should be daily reminders until there are consequences imho.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Kinda hard when they’ve gone full mafioso and split up the country into territories so that we only have like one choice and have to be a customer. Because capitalism runs on no competition and monopolies, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

that was ages ago, they took the money and never developed it, they started to do something last year with biden, but trump reversed. Just like with HIGH RAIL system in california, trump blocked it all.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Thank God we're also eliminating cheap solar panels from China. Who wants an energy source so unreliable. It literally didn't even shine for most of the entire time. Sure it's been lit for just a few million years but whatever are you gonna do when it eventually runs out of helium and hydrogen?

I'd prefer the new ford trash diesel hybrid....just start the engine on gasoline, switch to diesel, then just dump your trash for that week in the back and wait for the big ass black plume to reduce yo just a healthy soot. It can get 23miles per trashcan!..sorry, 2.3 downhill miles. Isn't it great? Mr.TrashyBurn!

[-] [email protected] 80 points 4 days ago

Didn't ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?

[-] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago

No that was just free money we gave them.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

And they kept it all to buy themselves the latest private jets stocked full of cocaine and hookers. Again.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

FCC: Doing our job deemed extraneous.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Broadband quality:

Great

Good

Decent

Whatever

[-] [email protected] 102 points 4 days ago

Such a predictable outcome by the shittiest people on the planet.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This is the same administration who is going all-in on oil and coal for energy production. Nobody should be surprised.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes.. America: i like cheese.. govt cheese

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As someone who has had download speeds above gigabit all throughout the 2020s so far (and for under $60/mo as well), it blows my mind that there are parts of the country that still don't even have 10% of that.

Like what I'm saying is that even cell phone towers can do multi-gig speeds these days FFS, so there's no excuse even for rural areas to not have at least a couple of reliable gigabit options available, no matter where you are in the country.

If they can figure out reliable 5G in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, surely they can install an antenna on grandpa's farm and beam a 2.5Gbps signal directly to his rooftop. I mean my 1400Mbps line comes in through a 5G gateway sitting in my kitchen window sill and it has been just as reliable as fiber for me, even with a giant pine tree in the way blocking line-of-sight to the tower. ISPs need to stop making up excuses, and actually start investing those outrageous monthly fees they collect into better infrastructure.

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago

Next up EPA switches to visual inspection of water sources for purity.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago

Why does everything have to be so fucking political?

Faster broadband is good. Who fucking cares what political party?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

But corporations don’t want to spend money on customers, so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why does everything have to be so fucking political?

When will people who say shit like this wake the fuck up and realize that life is political?

Grow up and deal with it like everyone else, fucking cowards.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Well yeah, we all know it's good. That's why Republicans want to take it away.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Why does everything have to be so fucking political?

The problem with ignoring politics is that politics is never going to ignore you.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

For rural communities to get higher speeds ISPs have to actually use the money the government gives them for increasing rural community internet speeds on increasing rural community internet speeds. If broadband is defined as "one house in the county has access to internet as fast as your grandparents had growing up" then they've already met their goal and they don't need to spend any money and collect pure profit from government subsidies.

Biden thought that was bullshit and established policy to direct them to do the right thing. The current administration, however, is more than happy taking their checks to the back.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It's especially funny how Republicans are against regulations because according to them, it stifles progress and innovation. So why are they against regulations that try to force progress and innovation?

Of course we know why, because it's all a lie. They just want more money for the 1%. How there is even a single (non-1%'er) idiot left that votes for them is waaaay beyond me.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Such great. So many again

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