Verizon CEO Wants To Charge Video Gamers More Money For Internet Access - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;44087915]For $63 a month I only get 15 down/2 up. Hooray for shitty little towns.[/QUOTE] Only? I'd kill for those speeds out here. Fuck AT&T.

I fucking hope the FCC is paying attention to what's happening in the wake of net neutrality being gutted by the courts.

ISPs in the United States are cartoonishly evil. I'd skin their CEOs alive if I thought I could get away with it.

I am literally stumped by how this is possible. I live in Norway, and the situation here is basically about three competing companies all trying to give the customers better deals. Why doesnt this happen in the USA?

[QUOTE=fantafuzz;44094871]I am literally stumped by how this is possible. I live in Norway, and the situation here is basically about three competing companies all trying to give the customers better deals. Why doesnt this happen in the USA?[/QUOTE] because it's considered easier/better/faster/more efficient to just lobby your problems away than try to actually solve them

[QUOTE=fantafuzz;44094871]I am literally stumped by how this is possible. I live in Norway, and the situation here is basically about three competing companies all trying to give the customers better deals. Why doesnt this happen in the USA?[/QUOTE] Because our 3 companies simply divide up territory amongst themselves so they can gouge freely and not worry about their customers going to someone else. Capitalism! I don't know why people think capitalism means competition and lower prices. It's far more profitable to agree not to compete, and to keep everyone else out of your market.

Humans could make this world a lot better by not being such greedy fucks. If we just looked at our position in life once a while and be thankful for what we have the world would be a better place. Here I'll do it! I am thankful that my mom lets me live in her basement. I am thankful that I have nothing better to do on a Saturday but write a reply on a forum about being thankful. Never mind Fuck my life.

[QUOTE=fantafuzz;44094871]I am literally stumped by how this is possible. I live in Norway, and the situation here is basically about three competing companies all trying to give the customers better deals. Why doesnt this happen in the USA?[/QUOTE] Because price fixing.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;44095125] It's far more profitable to agree not to compete, and to keep everyone else out of your market.[/QUOTE] That's not true capitalism then though.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;44086235]Fuck off, you already charge me 130$ a month for your shitty service. Might as well invest in a VPN Teksyndicate recommended one that oddly enough boosted their speeds at the cost of ping.[/QUOTE] wait, you guys seriously pay 100+ usd for a plan with datacaps? I pay roughly 20USD for an unlimited plan. Hell my phone, where I pay about 8USD has a cap on 3g but unlimited edge. (the 8usd being just for internet) [QUOTE=Ardosos;44096946]That's not true capitalism then though.[/QUOTE] Well it's an expression of capitalism though. If you wanted it to be many small providers in a large pool, the government would have had to step in and guarantee infrastructure access. Which did happen in many places in Europe. Which is why most people around here are able to to pick and choose from something like 4-10 ISPs pretty much everywhere.

[QUOTE=Ardosos;44096946]That's not true capitalism then though.[/QUOTE] not really, its capitalism at its purest, the point is making money, fuck all else, that is why regulation to prevent that is necessary.

Their service is to provide internet for people. This company make people paid for overpriced poor internet connection.

Maybe they're trying to combat publishers spamming DLC Or giving them a reason to make on disc dlc :suicide:

Remember when everyone wanted Verizon because they had FIOS.

How typical. "Power users should pay more", but I imagine my grandma who checks her email and facebook twice a day is still going to pay for a full-price plan, right?