Commerce Department Changes Rules for ISP’s
The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Friday that Internet service providers in America do not have to provide information formally required of them. With this decision, the ISP’s will not share how much money they make from each Internet subscriber nor will they say how fast their Internet connections typically run. The ISP’s prefer to keep this information private and not accessible to their competitors.
Joel Kelsey, a telecom policy analyst from the Consumers Union in a statement said, “Failing to make it public allows the companies to advertise, and charge for, something that they often can not deliver”. Kelsey added, “The actual speeds delivered to particular areas simply doesn’t match up, the government gave up a lot and received very,very little in return”.
ISP’s often advertise their maximum speed possible…. more speed and faster access equals more customers. These connections can, and often do, work at slower speeds than those advertised, especially when multiple subscribers are accessing the Internet.
Larry Landis, Chairman of the group that will map high speed Internet availability, praised the flexibility of the Commerce Department.
ACA President Matthew Polka said, “The agency’s modifications will improve and expedite the (mapping) effort”.
These changes come just one day after the Federal Communications Commission launched their first of many workshops aimed at gathering ideas and proposals for the National Broadband Plan it plans to give to Congress in February.
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