Gas is pretty affordable, but electricity is overpriced to me.

. . . So that’s where it went.

We’re somewhere into our 3rd decade of privatizing public utilities around the US. They always promise savings and improved service but deliver the opposite.

We’ve been paying Verizon billions of dollars via added fees to upgrade the local infrastructure to optical. Still hasn’t happened, and we’ve been told that there will be no new rollouts of FIOS — if the neighborhood doesn’t already have it, they’re not getting it.

If any company is allowed to zero-rate for free, why make -any- companies request a zero-rating?

It all becomes moot when you realize that zero rating wouldn’t even be a thing if not for the very anti-consumer practice of data caps. Zero rating sounds great until that little tidbit gets added into the mix.

Congestion is largely a myth, and even if it isn’t, the telecoms should bear the responsibily to upgrade their networks like they were supposed to when the US government gave them billions of dollars and they squandered it on bonuses for themselves. The FCC should ban data caps outright.

Hodor isn’t dead. He’s just sleeping. And then he went to a farm. Where he’ll always be happy.

Forget Hodor! I want an apology from David Benioff for writing X-men Origins: Wolverine.

Christ, I hope I live to see the day when we unfuck the broadband system in this country. When people recognize that broadband at this point should be a UTILITY handled at the municipal level, we will be a whole lot better off. Comcast might be the worst corporation in the US. I’m trying to think of who might be worse…

While it might be good for the consumer it sets a precedence for carriers (and also ISPs) to manipulate what services people use and how. While I’m sure a majority of the users on this site use Netflix in some capacity or another, zero-rating allows the company nearly the same reign to control what services get…

No, zero rating is all bad. Why? It will lead to more monopolies. How you ask? Like so: Company A is huge and established. Company A pays T-mobile to exempt it’s service from their customers data plans. Company B is small and a start up. Company B can’t afford to pay T-mobile to exempt it’s data from customers bills.…