Comcast, AT&T try to kill new requirements to be transparent about their shitty pricing::The 2021 infrastructure bill did some very good things for broadband. Not only did it include a massive, $42 billion investment in broadband deployment and require better mapping, it demanded that the FCC impose a new “nutrition label for broadband,” requiring that ISPs be transparent about all of the weird restrictions, caps, fees, and limitations…

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    1 year ago

    Cool, so list it so your customers can complain they’re getting charged for some weird tax.

    This isn’t pertinent, it’s just some anecdotal whataboutism about a tax you (presumably) disagree with.

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      1 year ago

      Whether the tax was valid or not I have no input on. Taxes are created for many reasons but our method of assessing it on customers who should not have been paying it was wrong.

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, perhaps I’ve misinterpreted the intent of your comment. I don’t see how it adds to a constructive conversation one way or the other on the issue at hand; maybe you just intended to highlight the absurdity of an ISP’s fee structure.

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          I was highlighing the absurdity of the fee structure.

          To expand on what I said in my second comment, the tax was probably created by the government to serve a relevant purpose that I don’t know about. I trust that there is a reason for the tax. The fact that it was being applied inappropriately to customers was the absurd part. It’s like an electric vehicle being taxed for highway tailpipe emissions.