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Big Telco’s fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Reality has a distinct anti-conservative bias, but conservatives have an answer: when the facts don't support your policies, just get different facts. Who needs evidence-based policy when you can have policy-based evidence?

Take gun violence. Conservatives tell us that "an armed society is a polite society," which means that the more guns you have, the less gun violence you'll experience. To prevent reality from unfairly staining this pristine ideological mind-palace with facts, conservatives passed the Dickey Amendment, which had the effect of banning the CDC from gathering stats on American gun-violence. No stats, no violence!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Policy-based evidence is at the core of so many cherished conservative beliefs, like the idea that queer people (and not youth pastors) are responsible for the sexual abuse of children, or the idea that minimum wages (and not monopolies) decrease jobs, or the idea that socialized medicine (and not private equity) leads to death panels:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

The Biden administration features a sizable cohort of effective regulators, whose job is to gather evidence and then make policy from it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

Fortunately for conservatives, not every Biden agency is led by competent, honest brokers – the finance wing of the Dems got to foist some of their most ghoulish members upon the American people, including a no-fooling cheerleader for mass foreclosure:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly

And these same DINOs reached across the aisle to work with Republicans to keep some of the most competent, principled agency leaders from being seated, like the remarkable Gigi Sohn, targeted by a homophobic smear campaign funded by the telco industry, who feared her presence on the FCC:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband/

The telcos are old hands at this stuff. Long before the gun control debates, Ma Bell had figured out that a monopoly over Americans' telecoms was a license to print money, and they set to corrupting agencies from the FCC to the DoJ:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/jam-to-day/

Reality has a vicious anti-telco bias. Think of Net Neutrality, the idea that if you pay an ISP for internet service, they should make a best effort to deliver the data you request, rather than deliberately slowing down your connection in the hopes that you'll seek out data from the company's preferred partners, who've paid a bribe for "premium delivery."

This shouldn't even be up for debate. The idea that your ISP should prioritize its preferred data over your preferred data is as absurd as the idea that a taxi-driver should slow down your rides to any pizzeria except Domino's, which has paid it for "premium service." If your cabbie circled the block twice every time you asked for a ride to Massimo's Pizza, you'd be rightly pissed – and the cab company would be fined.

Back when Ajit Pai was Trump's FCC chairman, he made killing Net Neutrality his top priority. But regulators aren't allowed to act without evidence, so Pai had to seek out as much policy-based evidence as he could. To that end, Pai allowed millions of obviously fake comments to be entered into the docket (comments from dead people, one million comments from @pornhub.com address, comments from sitting Senators who disavowed them, etc). Then Pai actively – and illegally – obstructed the NY Attorney General's investigation into the fraud:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

The pursuit of policy-based evidence is greatly aided by the absence of real evidence. If you're gonna fill the docket with made-up nonsense, it helps if there's no truthful stuff in there to get in the way. To that end, the FCC has systematically avoided collecting data on American broadband delivery, collecting as little objective data as possible:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

This willful ignorance was a huge boon to the telcos, who demanded billions in fed subsidies for "underserved areas" and then just blew it on anything they felt like – like the $45 billion of public money they wasted on obsolete copper wiring for rural "broadband" expansion under Trump:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/all-broadband-politics-are-local/

Like other cherished conservative delusions, the unsupportable fantasy that private industry is better at rolling out broadband is hugely consequential. Before the pandemic, this meant that America – the birthplace of the internet – had the slowest, most expensive internet service of any G8 country. During the lockdown, broadband deserts meant that millions of poor and rural Americans were cut off from employment, education, health care and family:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/12/ajit-pai/#pai

Pai's response was to commit another $8 billion in public funds to broadband expansion, but without any idea of where the broadband deserts were – just handing more money over to monopoly telcos to spend as they see fit, with zero accountability:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

All that changed after the 2020 election. Pai was removed from office (and immediately blocked me on Twitter) (oh, diddums), and his successor, Biden FCC chair Jessic Rosenworcel, started gathering evidence, soliciting your broadband complaints:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/parliament-of-landlords/#fcc

And even better, your broadband speed measurements:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#fly-my-pretties

All that evidence spurred Congress to act. In 2021, Congress ordered the FCC to investigate and punish discrimination in internet service provision, "based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin":

https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf

In other words, Congress ordered the FCC to crack down on "digital redlining." That's when historic patterns of underinvestment in majority Black neighborhoods and other underserved communities create broadband deserts, where internet service is slower and more expensive than service literally across the street:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/#digital-divide

FCC Chair Rosenworcel has published the agency's plan for fulfilling this obligation. It's pretty straightforward: they're going to collect data on pricing, speed and other key service factors, and punish companies that practice discrimination:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/preventing-digital-discrimination-broadband-internet-access

This has provoked howls of protests from the ISP cartel, their lobbying org, and their Republican pals on the FCC. Writing for Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin rounds up a selection of these objections:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/internet-providers-say-the-fcc-should-not-investigate-broadband-prices/

There's GOP FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, with a Steve Bannon-seque condemnation of "the administrative state [taking] effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US. He's especially pissed that the FCC is going to regulate big landlords who force all their tenants to get slow, expensive from ISPs who offer kickbacks to landlords:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/carr-opposes-bidens-internet-plan

The response from telco lobbyists NCTA is particularly, nakedly absurd: they demand that the FCC exempt price from consideration of whether an ISP is practicing discrimination, calling prices a "non-technical aspect of broadband service":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/110897268295/1

I mean, sure – it's easy to prove that an ISP doesn't discriminate against customers if you don't ask how much they charge! "Sure, you live in a historically underserved neighborhood, but technically we'll give you a 100mb fiber connection, provided you give us $20m to install it."

This is a profoundly stupid demand, but that didn't stop the wireless lobbying org CTIA from chiming in with the same talking points, demanding that the FCC drop plans to collect data on "pricing, deposits, discounts, and data caps," evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1107735021925/1

Individual cartel members weighed in as well, with AT&T and Verizon threatening to sue over the rules, joined by yet another lobbying group, USTelecom:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1103655327582/1

The next step in this playbook is whipping up the low-information base by calling this "socialism" and mobilizing some of the worst-served, most-gouged people in America to shoot themselves in the face (again), to own the libs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/10/digital-redlining/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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As of 2025, UK citizens who have an emergency in a blackout may not be physically able to call 999

As some of you may or may not be aware, the UK telecoms companies have decided that maintaining phone and internet infrastructure is too much effort, so they're getting rid of all the copper wired telephone infrastructure, and moving everyone to VoIP, or 'just sending phone calls over the internet'. I find this moronic for a bunch of reasons, but especially because VoIP needs power to work. Which in turn means that unlike standard landlines, a power cut also renders your phone useless. Obviously your mobile will still work - provided it has signal. If it doesn't have signal, then congratulations! You literally cannot make any calls, even to emergency services!

You know the places most likely to have bad phone signal?? Rural places. Which are also the places most likely to get powercuts.

This will literally kill people

The government has responded to this demonstration of screaming irresponsibility by mandating that telecoms companies provide 'at risk' households with a backup power supply lasting 'at least an hour'. How generous, how kind, how.... absolutely fucking useless for the people this move puts most at risk.

There are places - particularly in rural Scotland - where the only reason power companies know there's a problem is because affected customers call up and tell them.

Imagine it. You're living alone in rural Scotland. There's a storm overnight that knocks out your power at, say, midnight. Your Government Mandated Backup Power Supply (let's imagine your telecom company is extra generous and gives you one that lasts FIVE TIMES longer than the mandated minimum) kicks in when the power goes. You wake up at 7am. You have no power. Your backup power supply (let's. Just call it a ups) ran out two hours ago. You can't call the power company to tell them the power's gone. No one can call you to tell you anything, to warn about additional bad weather or check you're okay, nothing. You head into the kitchen to make breakfast in the predawn light. You trip over something you didn't see in the gloom and break your leg (if you're an older person, more likely your hip). You can't call an ambulance. If you're badly injured and can't get up, you lay there on the floor until - hopefully - someone comes round to check on you. Or you struggle upright and - what? Walk to the nearest bus stop, neighbour's house? If there's one in walking distance. Or - and this will be the most common outcome for the elderly without regular visitors - you lie there until you die.

There are houses in Scotland that don't have power, just phone lines, holiday cabins and some static caravans and so on. What are those people going to do? Or people who can't afford to pay their power bill? Are they now at risk of being unable to call an ambulance?

#uk politics #uk #telecoms

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The federal government has approved the multibillion-dollar merger of telecom companies Rogers and Shaw, but with conditions that Ottawa insists will make the deal good for consumers. François-Philippe Champagne, minister of innovation, science and industry, said at a news conference Friday that the government has approved the transaction first proposed in 2021. As part of the deal, the vast majority of Shaw's wireless business, Freedom Mobile, will be sold to Quebec-based Videotron. While Freedom Mobile and its more than two million customers will move over to Videotron, Rogers will maintain a much smaller part of Shaw's wireless business, known as Shaw Mobile, which operates mostly in Alberta and B.C.

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China laps Germany in some exports, turning trade tide and raising eyebrows

China has surpassed Germany in the exports of some products, a changing of the guard which has already altered the balance of trade in major markets, posed challenges to the European manufacturing powerhouse and cast a cloud over bilateral relations, according to a new report. While Germany has historically been a major source of imports in the European Union, particularly in advanced sectors…

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Minister calls on telecoms firms to chop installation of telegraph poles

Following the government agreements with Telecom to end land lines and instead use Fibre cables has now instructed them to halt installation of the old poles. The Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez has today (14th March 2024) called on telecoms companies to curb the installation of new telegraph poles, as the rollout of faster and more reliable broadband across the country…

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"Canada's telecom regulator is launching consultations on how to boost competition in the internet services market and lower prices.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said in a news release that it also would impose a 10 per cent reduction in some wholesale rates, effective immediately.

"The CRTC recognizes its current approach is not meeting its objective of encouraging more competition in the Internet services market," the news release says.

The review will look at the rates internet service providers pay to large telecom companies for network access. It also will look at whether telecom giants should give competitors access to their fibre-to-home networks, which have faster internet speeds.

Comments can be sent via online form, mail or fax on the latter question until April 24, 2023. Comments on all other matters the CRTC is reviewing will be accepted until June 22, 2023."

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