The fcc can fuck all the way off unless they start funding local isp co-ops. They completely missed the mark in providing high speed internet. It’s only disrupters that gave us anything.
We had dial up bullshit until broadband showed up. We had slow broadband until google started putting fiber down, and we had pathetic rural options until starlink.
So yes, don’t look at starlink as the reason they raised prices on their customers. Look at how badly US internet has been managed and regulated and fix your own shit first.
as someone from a 3rd world country, I was surprised to know a big part of the US was still relying on dial up in the 2020s.
Also, monthly quotas for home internet is abusive as fuck. Especially in times of video streaming.
There are plans of 1Gbps and 1.2TB of quota, so users may accidentally run out of internet for the whole month in 3 hours and, conveniently, need to pay them more.
The USA has some of the worse and best internet in the world. The country is truly massive and we range the ENTIRE spectrum.
There’s still some rual areas where dial up WITH DATA LIMITS are the only option. My buddy just moved to one in the rural north west.
That said, fuck the “disruptors” who first “disrupted” the market (not just fuelled by a “genius” idea, but also the deep pockets of VC), abusing their monopolies to buy off or quash any budding competition, squeeze every last penny out of their
victimscustomers and continuously enshittify their services for both individuals and businesses.I don’t agree with this.
Apple disrupted mobile phones for the better.
Cable modems disrupted dial ups.
Residential Solar is disrupting power generation companies.
Starlink disrupted Hughesnet and overpriced rural terrestrial wireless.
One could argue Apple’s disruption in the mobile device sector was not for the greater good.
I live in rural NC so right now I have either spectrum, which I hate because spectrum, 3Mbps DSL, or Starlink. I want fiber so bad I can taste it. I’d kill for a fiber co-op in my neighborhood… seriously… who you want offed?
