The Federal Communications Commission will vote to eliminate a rule that requires Internet service providers to list all of their so-called “passthrough” fees on an easily accessible broadband price label. The FCC vote could also make the price labels themselves a bit harder for consumers to find.
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills. One method of raising monthly bill prices above advertised rates is to tack on fees that, ISPs claim, are used to offset charges imposed by local governments.
In the European Union all ISPs market their connections based on maximum speed. However, the law requires them to meet at least 90% of that maximum advertised speed throughout the entire year (might slightly vary between countries), with some room for error. If they don’t - easy lawsuit.
Internet is also usually extremely cheap. In my country you can get it as cheap as $8/month, with very good (>=500Mb/s download) connections rarely exceeding $25 USD monthly. Hell, you can get an 8Gb/s download cable for just a little over $40/month.
Europe always forgetting about the shareholders. How’s the c suite going to afford their third yacht and their fourth mansion charging those prices?
$8 ?
Same here. Romania
I get 500Mbps for about 10 euro
cries in German
Trump voters really voted to get scammed and a worst quality of life for everyone else lol. There is not one thing good this admin has done.
To be fair, they did increase the biodiversity of the reflecting pool
I don’t want to disagree, but how about enabled the Charlie Kirk incident?
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills.
I wonder if there is any other countries where you will not know how much you’ll have to pay for internet until after you’ve signed a contract.
Know your place, trash!
Biden Bad, so therefore anything Donvict does == doubleplusgood.
Don’t talk to me about any facts, I don’t want to hear 'em!
