• db2@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    If it’s not too hard to charge the fees it’s not too hard to name them. Period.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s the most brazen part. They’re more than happy to pull in a dozen set of fees, but cry when they have to clearly list them so people aren’t taken advantage of. This is the type of rubbish that the “free market” produces and why there needs to be some level of government oversight.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like posturing to add a new fee for being required to list their fees if their weak argument gets thrown out by the FCC.

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        With ISP what is really need is Local-loop unbundling but extending to ISPs.

        Those that are old enough to use DSL in early 2000, might remember there was a lot of ISPs to chose from. The reason for it was that due to Title II telco companies were required to lease lines to their competitors. When cable started to be popular, ISPs lobbied politicians to categorize it under Title I which removed that requirement. We got Internet back to be categorized as Title II, but this specific rule was excluded and this is what is necessary to bring the competition.

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          1 year ago

          Seriously. We’ve even pushed it onto cell providers, which has been great for consumers - yet we let ISPs push laws which make nonprofit community options illegal in many states

          We’ve paid for their networks many times over at this point, and yet we still have some of the worst Internet in the developed world

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    If you have the accounting power to bill for it, you have the power to list it up front. The only way you can’t list fees is if you can’t figure out how to charge people for them.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    That’s weird because they don’t seem to have an issue charging me for a bunch of weird little shit while also keeping close tabs on my usage.

    Perhaps they could stop doing both and then it would free up time to innovate like we’ve given them public funds to do time and time again.

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    1 year ago

    CEO yacht club fee - 5.99
    CEO bonus fee - 10.98
    CEO bottle service fee - 2.99

    Idk doesn’t seem that hard…