Current Events > Google Fi is adding a 15 Gb data cap

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@Tyranthraxus

whoa wtf name change
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Yeah who is that guy
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P4wn4g3 posted...

So in the end they just can't provide the services they advertise in America then. So they compensate by fucking over the customers.

Sure if your paradigm is "just give up"

How about...

1. We let telecomms build towers wherever the fuck they want (provided that there isn't a hazard or obstruction of something important) i.e. do not allow the city / state to ban or prohibit the building of new infrastructure.

2. We additionally do not allow the city / state to ban or prohibit competition of new providers building their own infrastructure

3. We mandate that all infrastructure be available for lease at a locked utility rate

Then give it a few years for the market to react and we'll have caught up. Commercials be like "Our service has 4 bars in only 10% of the US! (5 bars everywhere else)"
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Look I wouldn't mind those changes. The companies have to lobby for them though, and with them undermining net neutrality at every turn and being shitty to customers, it's not like they deserve sympathy.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Look I wouldn't mind those changes. The companies have to lobby for them though, and with them undermining net neutrality at every turn and being shitty to customers, it's not like they deserve sympathy.

The issue here is that allowing the private citizen to lobby against construction of towers directly harms the service quality of private citizens.

Telecomms aren't really going to lobby hard for any of that stuff. 2 of them are directly against their interests and the first one turns out cheaper to just fold and go to the government and say "we tried" when they question why certain infrastructure growth minimums weren't met.
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