(12-15-2017 12:56 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  There was a discussion on the radio about this and someone called in and claimed that the United States has terrible internet compared to European countries.
Can anyone confirm or deny these claims?

Yes, they do, because they kept innovating and improving, which we stopped doing when net neutrality regulations came in. They have preferred competition to regulation, and all of their government efforts have been toward encouraging competition, not regulating providers. So they get innovation where we get stagnation.

Suppose we said that the solution for those 51% (somebody else's number, maybe yours, not mine) who have only one provider available is to force those markets open to competition. You could do something like what was done in Europe, and has been done here with electricity, and force companies to "wheel" for other companies. Or you could place regulations in place, but only where there is only a single provider. Or give single providers one option or the other.

There are lots of ways to solve the problem, if in fact a problem exists. If what we have after net neutrality is like what we had before, then I don't really see a problem.