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Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Unlabelled Re: [FunBBGroup] What Net Neutrality Really Means For You (And For Us)

Re: [FunBBGroup] What Net Neutrality Really Means For You (And For Us)

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A few years ago, I saw my internet from AT&T was $80 a month.  In the town I lived in, we had three options.  AT&T, Comcast, or Hughes Satellite.  Hughes was out of the question for broadband.  It's meant for rural folks that can't get wired internet.  That left AT&T and Comcast, both of which charged a high price for the area.  After some sort of battle (in court I suspect), it was ruled that another internet provider could come in using the infrastructure that AT&T had, to offer DSL, besides AT&T.  So what did AT&T do?  They blocked that companies website.  If you used AT&T, you couldn't get to the website.  And the county library was on AT&T, so even that wasn't an option.  Apparently, Comcast users experienced the same thing.  The company, after a few months, determined it wasn't economically feasible to offer service, so they stopped in that area. 

That's why net neutrality is important.  AT&T successfully, and legally, blocked competitors websites, so you had to find another way to get to the website to sign up, or just say heck with it, and stay with what you had. 

My understanding is after Net Neutrality was made into law, the new company decided they had already tried Nevada County, and weren't going to spend anymore money there.  And when I had called AT&T to complain, they said too bad....they weren't going to make it easy for a customer to go elsewhere. 


Carrie Courter
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On Monday, December 25, 2017, 5:39:07 PM CST, Jeff Nelson JEFFNC1@GMAIL.COM [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


I wonder how much this will effect streaming Netflix and Amazon series?
Jefff

What Net Neutrality Really Means For You (And For Us)





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