| Ka-pi96 said: I think we're more protected from any shit like this. Not just legally, but I mean there's actually a lot of competition for internet providers here. From what I understand the US internet situation is completely messed up with very little choice between providers, I think some regions literally only have one choice even, so if they want to carve up the internet and charge piece by piece for it there's nobody waiting to take all their customers by offering a better deal like we have. |
The problem everywhere does not lie on having few choices, but on the formation of a cartel. This kind of rules benefit all providers, so they can simply agree on following along. They just want to block you (or charge extra) for stuff that uses a lot of bandwidth, like 4K streaming or game downloads.
That's ridiculous because they are soooo eager to advertise plans of 100 Mbps, 200, 1 Gbps. The only use for such speed is downloads and streaming, basic web usage would be fine with 15 Mbps. So they simply want to charge you more because you use the speed they were selling to you. Disgusting.
In the US, people have few choices in smaller cities. It's a damn big country, it's not viable to have 4 or 5 different companies for every smaller city on the interior. Bigger cities where most of the population live most likely have more choices.
