Charter Spectrum Claims The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Magically Provide Better, Faster Broadband

Charter Spectrum Claims The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Magically Provide Better, Faster Broadband

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180613/11465840031/charter-spectrum-claims-death-net-neutrality-will-magically-provide-better-faster-broadband.shtml

Large ISPs like Comcast, Charter, Verizon and AT&T this week uniformly proclaimed that the death of net neutrality is going to be a really wonderful thing for American consumers. Charter Spectrum, for example, took to the company's policy blog to insist that the neutering of historically popular consumer protections on this front will somehow result in everybody getting better broadband. The ISP's argument, as it has throughout this entire little dog and pony show, focused on the repeatedly debunked claim that the FCC's pretty modest net neutrality rules demolished telecom industry investment:

"Without the regulatory overhang of these rules however, businesses like ours will have the certainty they need to make infrastructure investments over the long-term, helping more people get online and enabling even faster broadband. This includes bringing high speed broadband to more hard to serve areas, including rural communities."