ISPs say anti-discrimination rule should cover only deployment, not prices.
    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      As unintuitive as it may seem, the price charged to customers has little to do with the costs of providing the service.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Good thing Comcast tries to raise my price every time I move. Eventually they assume people will get tired of it and quit trying. Guess what, I got tired of calling them every year about it.

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      Unlikely since the FTC keeps letting them merge.

      And it’s not just tech. Pretty much everything you buy is from a brand that’s owned by one of a handful of companies.

      • yabai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I mean that’s not really true. The new FTC chair literally got the position by writing a paper on why Amazon should be broken up, and has raised numerous cases to stop recent M&A activity. One Meta/FB acquisition of a VR company, the Microsoft Blizzard/Activision buyout, among others. They’ve been shut down a lot by the courts.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    This is more shocking than police investigating themselves and finding nothing wrong.

  • sub_ubi@lemmy.mlBanned from communityEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Sounds like they should have a different owner. Municipalities.