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The Federal Communications Commission will vote to eliminate a rule that requires Internet service providers to list all of their so-called “passthrough” fees on an easily accessible broadband price label. The FCC vote could also make the price labels themselves a bit harder for consumers to find.
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills. One method of raising monthly bill prices above advertised rates is to tack on fees that, ISPs claim, are used to offset charges imposed by local governments.
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Trump voters really voted to get scammed and a worst quality of life for everyone else lol. There is not one thing good this admin has done.
Let’s see… They slowed down the war that they started in Iran. They released half of the Epstein files, just not the presumably 50% that directly implicate Trump. Trump fired Pam Bondi who he had appointed.
It’s hard to think of anything good that they did that wasn’t just toning down or backtracking of something bad that they had previously done.
Its literally just an abuse-manipulation tactic at that point.
Going overboard, then retreating back only slightly to give the false impression of being reasonable, when theyve already got what they want.
Throw it on the pile of shit that the public will never acknowledge, yes I know.
and hired TODD blanche, who is even more tied to EPSTEIN than bondi is. trump likely is keeping him close so he doesnt rat on trump down the line.
The penny is gone. That was 30 years overdue.
Kind of. With no unified plan or support to transition.
All you need is to stop considering pennies legal tender but require banks to still accept them for changing or depositing (but not giving them out anymore).
Then stores can handle them on a case by case basis if they want to or just say “sorry we’re done with pennies”.
Oh yeah, also send the mint a note telling them to stop producing pennies en masse.
I disagree, but that’s just me apparently. It’s not that I particularly liked pennies, but I definitely don’t like companies rounding UP to the nearest nickel. And as for the pennies costing more to make than they’re worth – so what? Basically any government provided service or product costs taxpayer money. Also, change the penny to make it more cost effective?
Anyhow, what’s done is done, and we’re probably all poorer because of it. I’ve been poor – it sucks but life goes on.
I don’t want to disagree, but how about enabled the Charlie Kirk incident?
To be fair, they did increase the biodiversity of the reflecting pool
That’s not true. It showed us everyone’s true colors.
we already knew that during the campaign before episode 1.
I don’t think it showed us anything that we didn’t know already
i wonder what isps are only in red states, in the blue areas you get more than the OG 3 competitors. they likely have verizon, TWC, AT&T and xfinity mostly.
Ive had Cox internet and BTC (bixby broadband) in Oklahoma.
Fortunately I avoided the mistake of voting blue tho, bc Lemmy tankies told me the truth that bOtH sIdEs SaMe.
( /s )
Anything to fuck over working class.
And the white ones w/o degrees will vote even harder for Republicans to “own the libs”. Meanwhile, just sitting on their own balls, basically.
I didn’t get to go to college since my mother’s AIDS bankrupted our family, but I didn’t and don’t want to see other people hurt.
Am I a little bitter I couldn’t afford mountains of debt to get a degree while watching many of my friends go off to college? Sure.
Am I sad I had to work at a younger age than my peers so we could afford to juggle medications and bills? Sure.
Has this trajectory seriously screwed me for a lifetime of poverty? Yes, definitely.
Do I want to see other people hurt? No.
I’m not a nazi just because I wasn’t able to get a degree
In any decent civilization, someone as evil and corrupt and stupid as Brendan Carr would be taken to a remote destination and beaten into a chunky soup
In the European Union all ISPs market their connections based on maximum speed. However, the law requires them to meet at least 90% of that maximum advertised speed throughout the entire year (might slightly vary between countries), with some room for error. If they don’t - easy lawsuit.
Internet is also usually extremely cheap. In my country you can get it as cheap as $8/month, with very good (>=500Mb/s download) connections rarely exceeding $25 USD monthly. Hell, you can get an 8Gb/s download cable for just a little over $40/month.
Europe always forgetting about the shareholders. How’s the c suite going to afford their third yacht and their fourth mansion charging those prices?
$8 ?
Same here. Romania
I get 500Mbps for about 10 euro
Canada, I can’t get 500 but I can get 360Mbps for CAD83
cries in German
this is one that i directly appreciated. the transparent bottom-line pricing was refreshing.
even more reason to stop using American services.
Where can I sign up for Canadian Internet in my US State?
by leaving, hope this helps :)
If every American who was being harmed by this admin moved to Canada you’d be amazed how quickly Canada would be come anti-immigrant.
Right…
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills.
I wonder if there is any other countries where you will not know how much you’ll have to pay for internet until after you’ve signed a contract.
or that they add new service charge, because they added something your subscription without consent. like how comcast constantly changes the tier of your cable services often.
Everyone knows opaque markets work the best. Brilliant display of regulatory skill from the party of fiscal responsibility.
Know your place, trash!
Gotta own those libs, right? /s
Wonder if my provider will appreciate me not paying any fees that weren’t included in the listed price
Biden Bad, so therefore anything Donvict does == doubleplusgood.
Don’t talk to me about any facts, I don’t want to hear 'em!
I cant tell which side this is parodying anymore.
If you don’t get the reference, you should read 1984.
FUUUUCK I hate these “hologram” stock photos where the text isn’t reversed. So I’m supposed to believe that the user is looking at a reversed image??
That’s just how magical it is, the text flips for everyone reading it.
ISPs: we wanna charge a bunch of bullshit fees so we can lie to customers about what our prices are. Biden: Sure! But you’ll have to come up with names for the fees. Trump: Sure!
This one of those things that looks awful because the current regime decided to stop whatever flimsy fig leaf the dems had insisted on when they did pretty much the same thing.
They were already doing it before the Biden requirements.
Source: I worked at a carrier and had to explain their bills to people daily.
The information disclosure was significantly different for consumers even though the bill didn’t really change, they just had to actually breakdown the fees and surcharges, they couldn’t hide it all blindly under “the government says we have to collect this”.
