ISPs Have A Piece Of The Pai

This week Dennis and Joel discuss two major ISPs and the problems they are having with consumers in New York and Ohio. There is a bit of self congratulations as the media seem to be agreeing with a lot of what Joel and Dennis have been saying about the new direction of the FCC.

AT&T Alleged redlining in Ohio: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-allegedly-discriminated-against-poor-people-in-broadband-upgrades/

Verizon get’s sued by NY: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/nyc-sues-verizon-alleges-failure-to-complete-citywide-fiber-rollout/

An L.A. Times article basically reiterating everything we’ve said about Pai over the last few episodes.  http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-fcc-broadband-20170310-story.html

Great Verge article on the FTC vs FCC regs.  They even use our analogy: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/14881068/fcc-privacy-rules-fight-web-history-ads

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