- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says Internet service providers shouldn’t have to list every fee they charge. Responding to a request from cable and telecom lobby groups, he is proposing to eliminate a rule that requires ISPs to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers.
The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs’ complaints that listing every fee they created would be too difficult. The rule applies specifically to recurring monthly fees “that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government.”
ISPs could comply with the rule either by listing the fees or by dropping the fees altogether and, if they choose, raising their overall prices by a corresponding amount. But the latter option wouldn’t fit with the strategy of enticing customers with a low advertised price and hitting them with the real price on their monthly bills. The broadband price label rules were created to stop ISPs from advertising misleadingly low prices.
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the latter option wouldn’t fit with the strategy of enticing customers with a low advertised price and hitting them with the real price on their monthly bills
AKA deliberate false advertising amounting to outright fraud.
Voting for an infamous fraudster convicted felon, get defrauded. 🙄
Nobody voted for being defrauded through hidden fees by ISPs.
Not even Republicans (or rather the vast majority of them that DON’T stand to profit from it) are deluded enough to want that or even think that they do.
The trump administration isRepublicans are literally against anything decent and for anything evil. When you think of it that way, of course they are all friendly to pedophiles and rapists.Lolololol so cry to FCC because of all the fees you have to list because you want to false advertise and then charge way more than you’re advertising in fees. That’s the American way huh? Couldn’t just, IDK, not pass a ridiculous amount of fees to the consumers for a required in our society service?
This doesn’t really have to do with the number of fees at all. It’s “corrupt government that accepts corporate handouts further removes regulation on ISPs so they can implement shadier pricing strategies to further ill-gotten profits.”
There’s like two or three fees that are legitimate. Others are just a way to get people to pay more without realizing and have more trouble recouping their losses
Drug dealer: Okay okay, how about I dont list all my sources of income on my taxes?
There’s just too many to keep track of!
see? the orange idiot got internet prices down!
now only 99c a month *
I’m so fucking thankful I don’t work for a large ISP call center anymore. Customers will scream about their prices going up but somehow blame the last administration in the same breath.
It’s the information war. They need to degrade the amount of information Americans have access to in order to quel the inevitable rebellion when the bottom drops out of the economy. First they’ll finish dismantling public schools, then they’ll take away your internet access or make it so expensive only the rich can afford it, or can avoid going to jail for thought crime for using it.
This is so fucking stupid I can’t help but laugh
Do we want the informed consumers making rational decisions kind of capitalism, or the kind where corporations exploit people who are helpless to whatever a lie they want to tell about the true cost of our decisions? Guess we have the answer.
