The fact that the lawsuit stalls a potential competitor doesn't factor in at all?

"The Ordinance thus purports to permit a third party (the Attacher) to temporarily
seize AT&T’s property, and to alter or relocate AT&T’s property, without AT&T’s consent and
with little notice" -from the lawsuit

Because my understanding of it is still "no fast lanes, all data must be treated equally."

Ties into the whole title 2 thing and how major ISPs were cutting people off of certain types of data arbitrarily.

Consider, for a moment, that their 'property' happens to be the cables, where they sit on the line.

are you talking to me @RyeNorth

Yeah.

okay, are you arguing with me orrrrrrr

Vaguely.

`Can we just have a discussion without it being an argument lol`

I don't get what you're trying to say

the lawsuit was filed because a competitor was allowed to tamper with their property without consent

What I'm saying is, the infrastructure as it exists are the power, telephone, and cable lines within a city.

To what degree were they tampering?

possibly seizing and relocating it

Are they referring to the lines?

which could have an affect on AT&Ts services

not the lines I think but certain modules

Because I don't think they could've possibly been relocating their stations or anything like that.

and also the poles themselves are AT&T property

Are they really? Huh.

I'd figure a neutral party would have to be in charge of those, like the city.

Nope.

And that's kind of the problem.

well, yeah.

It's a problem regardless of who owns them

Something something title 2 let them handle the infrastructure, including improvements, which they've basically been slacking on because there's no reason to whatsoever.

or, sorry, i think they own many modules attached to the poles

Like I said

And the companies have gotten so big that the little guy isn't going to be able to bring them down.

5 up

10 down

I'm living in the past.

Net neutrality is definitely ugly, if you don't trust the government.

I don't.

But that's the only patchwork solution we have right now.

and they were concerned because any disruption of their equipment could harm thousands of customers' service

Create a different solution then.

The other option is 5 up 10 down with the threat that you're getting 1 up 2 down for everything that isn't Approved by Comcast™.

Because that's how everything seems to be poised to go.

Either that or them vacuuming up your data because there's no viable alternatives to the big 3.