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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's FCC Votes to Allow Broadband Rate Hikes for Schools and Libraries
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/trumps-fcc-to-vote-to-allow-broadband-rate-hikes-for-schools-and-libraries?utm_source=mbtwitterAnother day, another anti-consumer corporate giveaway.
President Trump's recently-installed Federal Communications Commission chief, Republican Ajit Pai, has made clear that he wants to roll back US rules protecting net neutrality, the principle that all internet content should be equally accessible to consumers.
But the forthcoming Republican assault on net neutrality is just one component of an escalating effort by Trump's FCC to deregulate the broadband industry in ways that benefit corporate giants like AT&T and Verizon, and hurt consumers, according to public interest advocates.
For example, the FCC voted today to approve a controversial plan to deregulate the $45 billion market for business-to-business broadband, also known as Business Data Services (BDS), by eliminating price caps that make internet access more affordable for thousands of small businesses, schools, libraries and hospitals. The price caps, which have been in place for years, are designed to protect small businesses and other community institutions from predatory behavior by monopoly broadband providers like AT&T and Verizon.
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Trump's FCC Votes to Allow Broadband Rate Hikes for Schools and Libraries (Original Post)
Cattledog
Apr 2017
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riversedge
(70,092 posts)1. Kand REC
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)2. Well of course it did.
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)3. Another day... Another milestone in corruption