I have a buddy who’s an ATT tech, he says Google hires local contractors who often do shady shit like run lines through the road only inches deep and just leave it temporarily filled in

When Australia wins the space race y'all can use our satellite internet

NN didn't solve anything really

outside of making everything probably slower

because video steaming and stuff takes up a LOT of bandwidth

I can’t wait to purchase the chat package that includes discord

It worked the opposite here, ISPs would offer freebies to say Facebook to outbid for customers, everything else is the same price

its a bit of an iffy thing,

WITH NN, theres no need to compete since theres no new customer base, cuz everyone is required to get the same package, so price is the only thing that matters,
And to invest into making new internet across US might not give desirable returns

So you´re stuck with shitty internet since no company bothers being better, theres no competition

without NN, you CAN get like bad package deals, and then a new company can come in and offer universal internet for a good price, and steal the market again

also, Americans should be aware NN didn´t exist for them before 2015
So how bad was it really? 😛

Customer service, lock in scam contracts (join us for free Facebook and Netflix), and general connection speed/reliability.
This is what Australian ISPs rely on.

Again, what new company? How with the regulation involved? And where? We have literally one option here that isn’t satellite.

Mine is pay by the month and unlimited. They are booming ahead because what other offer could be better

If those concerns were addressed I would agree

@Dr.Wol you are stuck with shitty internet either way because there is so much regulatory crap, plus the existing companies lobbying, that no new companies can compete. still no need to innovate or upgrade.

true, that is the issue

which is why some people want NN, so that if they are stuck with the same company, at least they are getting to all the sites they want to just like everyone else.

but its a bandaid that does nothing to fix the issue. it just makes everyone slow

we are all equal in poverty, so it were.

the one universal right

you have the right to live empoverished

The law here is if only one company is in the area, they must offer the deals of every other company.

how does that...work?

sounds like a nightmare

"here are the 357 different plan options"

i think government and big bussiness tends to fuck things up

government + big business fucks everything up.

government + anything == fucked up

big bussiness becomes your government when it is large enough

If it's rural or a new area, you can't miss out on a good deal.
Basically what happens is the first company rents its equipment to other companies to avoid the headache

it can only really get that big with government help.

no not really

So I could go to telstra and say optus offers this, you have to match it. Telstra doesn't want to so they let optus use their infrastructure

all you need to do in order to get big is outcompete your compatition, which becomes easier the sooner you have a product that takes longer for anyone else to be able to provide and the larger you get the harder it becomes to compete with you

those 2 factors are almost never effected by government

in the past governemnt has only ever worked against those 2 factors by either regulating resources or breaking monopolys

name on thing needed to live that matches that criteria

Women

women are property?

woke