<story><title>AT&amp;T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>But that&amp;#x27;s the bigger issue isnt it? That is we keep using bandaids when the root problem is lack of competition.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone heard if Google is considering restarting Fiber? I was always under the impression that they hope the implied competition was enough. It had seemed to be working. But then it was squashed.</text></item><item><author>tech2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just Facetime, there&amp;#x27;s all manner of related stuff. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freepress.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-violations-brief-history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freepress.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-vio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each time I see a NN post I&amp;#x27;m generally too late and it&amp;#x27;s been run rampant with defenders of &amp;quot;light touch&amp;quot; regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they&amp;#x27;re entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Denzel</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t claim to know what Google&amp;#x27;s motivation is&amp;#x2F;was with Fiber. But isn&amp;#x27;t it funny that the company with the most money, one of the best brands, some of the best engineering talent, and access to the deepest bench of lawyers... failed.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t align the stars in a straighter line than Google. And yet, they gave up. Why?&lt;p&gt;At this point, I&amp;#x27;m rooting for SpaceX&amp;#x27;s Starlink. At least they have a chance, and a history of fantastic achievements. I trust them to follow through more than Google.</text></comment>
<story><title>AT&amp;T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>But that&amp;#x27;s the bigger issue isnt it? That is we keep using bandaids when the root problem is lack of competition.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone heard if Google is considering restarting Fiber? I was always under the impression that they hope the implied competition was enough. It had seemed to be working. But then it was squashed.</text></item><item><author>tech2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just Facetime, there&amp;#x27;s all manner of related stuff. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freepress.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-violations-brief-history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freepress.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-vio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each time I see a NN post I&amp;#x27;m generally too late and it&amp;#x27;s been run rampant with defenders of &amp;quot;light touch&amp;quot; regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they&amp;#x27;re entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcell</author><text>You have to go city-by-city to get approval. It&amp;#x27;s painful even for a company with infinite money like Google. And Comcast will (also with infinite money) will fight you city-by-city.&lt;p&gt;Not only is city-by-city approval painful, it is also slow. Think how long it takes a city council to approve an apartment building. Now thing how long it will take them to approve a city-wide project like installing fiber lines.&lt;p&gt;Look at the Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Google_Fiber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Google_Fiber&lt;/a&gt; It&amp;#x27;s a list of cities. Each one of which had to individually approve Google Fiber.&lt;p&gt;This is why there is no competition for broadband.</text></comment>