On 11/18/22 07:36, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote:
Forwarded from NANOG list:
The effective date will be determined later, after publication in the
Federal Register and OMB review under PRA.
November 17, 2022?The Federal Communications Commission today
unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband
providers to display easy-tounderstand labels to allow consumers to
comparison shop for broadband services. The Report and Order approved by
the Commission creates rules that require broadband providers to
display, at the point of sale, labels that show key information consumers
want?prices, speeds,fees, data allowances, and other critical
information. The labels resemble the well-known nutrition labels that
appear on food products.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-requires-broadband-providers-display-labels-help-consumers-0
Even though the label only specifies "typical latency", I have a sense that this is a
good step forward. If your ISP specifies 5 msec as "typical" and their crummy router is
bloated, can you get a repair if you call them and say that it's averaging 150msec?
At what point does the expense of handling all the tech support calls outweigh
the expense of actually making (and deploying) good routers?
For small ISPs, pretty quickly (eg, the late UUNET Canada, where we all
fit in one room)
For the duopolists, not until the legal department says "We've just had
a class-action suit filed against us, is it cheaper to fight it or to
fix whatever they're talking about?"
--dave c-b (;-))
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System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
dave.collier-br...@indexexchange.com | -- Mark Twain
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