Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”
They don’t have any problem figuring out what to charge me after I sign up. Whatever process they use for that they can use to tell me what it’s going to cost before I agree. Unless internet access is like healthcare and nobody has any idea what anything costs and your bill is full of $40 Advils and charges for services you never received.
Lol that’s not an argument. You obviously have the capability to bill people those fees, but you don’t have to print/show those fees? Ya no
Glad I cut the cable for good this time.
I just use Visible for Internet and spend $25/month.
Nice seeing an extra $600 in my bank account after a year of no cable internet.
But charging it is easy enough?
In its dismissal of the broadband industry’s claims that itemizing fees would be too confusing for customers and too burdensome for providers
Sounds like there is a lot of shady shit in there that people will ask about if they had to list it.
Good list of hidden junk fees Comcast charges, but they are far from being the only ones:
https://cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-has-12-different-hidden-fees-on-its-triple-play-packages/
Providers are free, of course, to not pass these fees through to consumers to differentiate their pricing and simplify their Label display if they believe it will make their service more attractive to consumers and ensure that consumers are not surprised by unexpected charges.
This official response is brillaint. “Feel free at any time to just stop charging bullshit fees.”
This is the ‘regulation’ that conservatives bitch about so much.
It’s a good thing when government steps in to protect citizens from corporate greed.
Exactly.
The modern conservative position “against excessive government regulation” is analogous to the historical argument that the civil war was over “states’ rights”.
Back then, it was only about states’ rights specifically as it related to a state’s right to legal slavery to prop up their exploitative economic system that perpetuated the wealth and prosperity of the elites at the expense of everyone else.
Now it’s only about “excessive regulation” against deceptive and manipulative business practices designed to prop up their exploitative economic system that perpetuates the wealth and prosperity of the elites at the expense of everyone else.
