<story><title>One Step Closer to a Closed Internet</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/05/18/one-step-closer-closed-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>durandal1</author><text>My Stockholm apartment had multiple ISPs competing for service over fiber laid down by a state-owned company. In 2007 this meant symmetric 100mbit for about $30&amp;#x2F;month.</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>I want to say this first: I love net neutrality and I support it 100%.&lt;p&gt;That said, I think this battle will go on forever until either&lt;p&gt;- We have a decentralized network anybody can plug into &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; ISPs (mesh net) or&lt;p&gt;- Cities build their own fiber infrastructure (or 4G towers for rural areas) and rent it out to companies. Cable&amp;#x2F;DSL become a thing of the past, and you connect via radio&amp;#x2F;public wifi&amp;#x2F;direct fiber.&lt;p&gt;This battle is starting to get ridiculous. The &amp;quot;let the market decide&amp;quot; shills don&amp;#x27;t seem to understand there&amp;#x27;s no market. So let&amp;#x27;s give them one, on public infrastructure. Either that, or make the internet some kind of mesh-connected network that routes around blocks&amp;#x2F;slowdowns.&lt;p&gt;Until then, let&amp;#x27;s all just agree the net neutrality is a common-good consumer protection, and there&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason, &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;, to get rid of it until we either have a viable marketplace or we don&amp;#x27;t need ISPs..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhblake</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve progressed a bit since the days of the state telephone monopoly, eh? My mom in Stockholm has symmetric 100 Mb&amp;#x2F;s included in her rent. ~$12&amp;#x2F;month extra for 1 Gb&amp;#x2F;s (both ways!). In France I currently pay ~$40&amp;#x2F;month for 1 Gb&amp;#x2F;s down, 200 Mb&amp;#x2F;s up; a bit expensive, but it&amp;#x27;s getting better. Competition is cool.</text></comment>
<story><title>One Step Closer to a Closed Internet</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/05/18/one-step-closer-closed-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>durandal1</author><text>My Stockholm apartment had multiple ISPs competing for service over fiber laid down by a state-owned company. In 2007 this meant symmetric 100mbit for about $30&amp;#x2F;month.</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>I want to say this first: I love net neutrality and I support it 100%.&lt;p&gt;That said, I think this battle will go on forever until either&lt;p&gt;- We have a decentralized network anybody can plug into &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; ISPs (mesh net) or&lt;p&gt;- Cities build their own fiber infrastructure (or 4G towers for rural areas) and rent it out to companies. Cable&amp;#x2F;DSL become a thing of the past, and you connect via radio&amp;#x2F;public wifi&amp;#x2F;direct fiber.&lt;p&gt;This battle is starting to get ridiculous. The &amp;quot;let the market decide&amp;quot; shills don&amp;#x27;t seem to understand there&amp;#x27;s no market. So let&amp;#x27;s give them one, on public infrastructure. Either that, or make the internet some kind of mesh-connected network that routes around blocks&amp;#x2F;slowdowns.&lt;p&gt;Until then, let&amp;#x27;s all just agree the net neutrality is a common-good consumer protection, and there&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason, &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;, to get rid of it until we either have a viable marketplace or we don&amp;#x27;t need ISPs..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulletbum</author><text>I live in the country and have this right now. 100mb for $50 or 1000mb for $100.</text></comment>