>Pai, who hails from rural Kansas, said he’ll lead the charge by calling on Congress to “create Gigabit Opportunity Zones,” areas with average incomes below $40,243 where ISPs would qualify for federal tax incentives in exchange for building networks boasting 1,000 megabits per second download speeds, far exceeding the FCC’s minimum definition of broadband speed of 25 Mbps, and the U.S.’s average of 31 Mbps.
archive.is/Bg5eE
Are you Sup Forumsuys ready for gbps speeds in every house (and close to that on every phone)?
actually I heard the internet was going away because he's getting rid of net neutrality
Lucas Turner
good. now add a requirement that there be no data caps or throttling to qualify for the incentive
Jose Garcia
Why the fuck do a bunch of poor hillbillies in the countryside need gigabit internet? Sounds like a giant waste of money. Seems like Drumpf is just giving back to the poor and uneducated idiots who voted him in.
James Davis
>With those incentives, ISPs “would be able to immediately expense all capital spending associated with bringing gigabit services to residents and businesses” and “carryover any losses for up to seven years, giving new ISP competitors with less revenues a strong incentive to enter the market.”
It's called competition and the free market buddy. There won't have to be any regulations requiring no data caps. The customer (cash) will be king again.
Dylan Stewart
The plan is to eliminate net neutrality and only let people access fake news sites. I can't believe you idiots fell for him.
Nathaniel Bell
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Alexander Reyes
>be trump >2.5 days as president >ends TPP >makes deal with car manuf. >still call him an idiot
He won't end net neutr. you fell for fake news idiot.
Landon Johnson
Wow, even more areas can get $300/month gigabit now!
Matthew Fisher
trump is nothing but a big fat joke
Jaxon Hill
They already have tax incentives and don't ever upgrade shit.
Carson Cruz
i didn't know his own twitter was a fake news source
also the TPP is still around america is just not apart of it
Nicholas Thompson
lul, trump already did more great shit for america in his first day than obongo did in 8 years.
and the wall "rapid build" plan will be revealed soon
Landon Mitchell
Enjoy having all news sources other than Faux news blocked.
Kayden Cox
>i didn't know his own twitter was a fake news source
I thought everybody knew that.
Nathan Anderson
Remember when Verizon took huge subsidies to build their fiber network then charged $300 per month for 500 Mbps?
Jace King
>archive seriously for what purpose?
Zachary Bennett
you'll be eating your words soon, reddit drone
Angel Allen
you're an idiot if you think trump actually wants to help anyone but himself
Owen Torres
>reddit shill is back but Bernie says Trump getting rid of the TPP was a great thing. w-what are you going to do now? Your communist leader praised Trump!
Parker Morales
Yes, that's why Bernie endorsed Drumpf in the general election right?
Ryder Anderson
From my understanding here in Canada the ISP market is an oligopoly. They're not competing, they're just working together to have the same plans at the same prices all the time, so there are no new competitors. How do you fix that without regulations?
Owen Moore
he just wants the fake news to stop
Tyler Green
>tfw when mom won't let you exceed 9 letters per word
Ian Davis
Getting rid of the TPP is a good thing, but if pulling out of trade agreements becomes a trend, things are going to start becoming very expensive, very quickly.
Dominic Collins
>It's called competition and the free market buddy.
> thinking competition and free markets are unilaterally good things
> not realizing that when it comes to infrastructure, competition and numerous parallel efforts just leads to fragmentation and wasted repetitive effort
Idiots like you are why they will be able to turn the internet into cableTV
Jordan Diaz
this is because Bernie and Trump are both economically illiterate. Free trade increases competition which lowers prices for the consumer and raises the standard of living.
Adrian Powell
Pretty sure Trump wants new trade agreements, just ones with better terms for the U.S.
You've done it user! You've solved economics! Contact the news!
Chase Cruz
Not necessarily. Free trade also allows corporations to move jobs offshore where labour is cheaper so it becomes a race to the bottom in terms of wages.
Isaac Hill
That wouldn't be required if they just did their fucking regulating job. This is a sham.
But for every American made poorer a dozen Chinese and Indians can be lifted from poverty so it's for the greater good and if you argue against it you are literally racist.
Checkmate socialists.
Asher Evans
Did you read the post to which you replied? There's a thing called depreciation. If a business buys a $2,000 air conditione, they can't expense it right away for tax purposes immediately. They have to expense $400 per year over 5 years per gov't rules.
Pajeet wants to let ISP expense it all right away. This will allow start up ISPs to compete with AT&T, Verizon, etc. They can invest their money right away on infrastructure without worrying about paying taxes until they have a net profit on their investment. Does that make sense?
Easton Barnes
>implying Sup Forums is the best friend from reddit The alt-right is the new cool kids on internet.
Luis Foster
>for every real person made poorer a dozen soulless chink robots and poo in loos can be lifted from poverty no
Noah Torres
inb4 small data caps rendering gbit speeds useless
Joseph Foster
Sounds great out of context, but Pai would just use these Gigabit Opportunity Zones to prioritize certain sites over others in rural areas.
Mason Gray
i will. enjoy your ass pain, gayboy.
Elijah Lewis
TPP is dead redditfag
Kevin Harris
Only for workers who literally don't do anything better than workers in those countries. even if there was no movement of jobs to other countries, those are exactly the kinds of jobs that get automated.
The best thing the government could do to help is subsidize people moving out of dying factory towns and to areas where jobs are being created. Trying to keep things as they are (or were) is a losing battle.
Isaac Moore
>Sup Forumstards just starting to wake up and realize they won't be able to shit post anime anymore
well done retards, well done.
Jacob Hill
>live in semi-rural Kansas >paying $75/mo for 30 Mbps >mfw no data cap >mfw 0 outages >mfw this news
Charles Myers
might want to actually read the OP before you start your shilling, you brain dead nigger.
Easton Gomez
Fucking love this President
Jackson Miller
>white nationalism: check >goldman sachs capitalism: check >access to gigabit internets: check the burger is on the rise once again
Gavin Myers
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Jace Long
i hope im wrong, but everything points to this curry enacting fast lanes for the internet.
Kayden King
Best Indian ever?
BEST INDIAN EVER
Fuck Gandhi.
Austin Phillips
Fuck yes Fiber is the true patricians choice
Thomas Nelson
The Obongo DemonRats on the FCC are fucking assholes.
>Wheeler said. “Quote: ‘the notice presents no basis for a conclusion at this time that a service less than 10Mbps is no longer advanced.' But what they say to their customers is, ‘with downstream speeds up to 45Mbps, AT&T’s U-verse high-speed Internet lets you enjoy life in the fast lane, download music, movies and more in record time.’”
archive.is/82vPt
You're in the "fast lane", user! Quick complaining!
Robert Taylor
>multi-billionaire real estate tycoon and business mogul doesn't know anything about economics
When the fuck will this retarded shit end? Do you seriously believe this shit in your mind?
Hudson Wilson
Wireless fiber is the future
Colton Perry
his real estate projects have literally earned less than the S&P 500. He'd have come out ahead sticking all his money in an index fund.
John Williams
Jesus christ Drumpf is such a fucking idiot. This country is going down the gutter way faster than anyone could have imagined.
Brandon Russell
He has people. The best people. Wonderful people.
Isaiah Gray
And yet here he is, most powerful man in the world.
Benjamin Russell
I'm not complaining. U-shit isnt even offered here, its just 2 smallish companies.
>gigabit internet only for $3 a month >The catch is however every single site you want to access will cost you an additional $15 per site >Free websites are only approved by Comrade Trump It's genius
Jacob King
>government incentives = free market no wonder everyone thinks americans are idiots
Jack Torres
>"if he left his money in an index fund he'd have made more money!"
All it took was 1 (one) clickbait article and all you clueless retards clung onto it to beat it for eternity. Its incorrect and fucking stupid. Trump is the only person who's been told this, I wonder why.
You know, and I know, that you have zero understanding of what the fuck you just said. Posting here is pointless.
Leo Cook
no, it wouldn't have. he would have been raped on taxes if he tried to cash out if he did that. meanwhile his current net worth is already post tax.
not to mention that he wouldn't have had a business empire nor would he employ thousands of people. but do go on and give business and financial advice to a billionaire while you're sitting in your jizz crusted underwear.
Lincoln Bennett
Create intensives like the 1996 telecommunications act where companies were given massive tax breaks to lay fibre and push america into a internet connected future.
None of that happened and the companies still reap many of those tax breaks today.
I dont much care to Trump or Pai but if they throw down some fucking HARDBALL on the ISP's and build out some actual infrastructure they can spy on my porn habits all they want
John Allen
The opposite is true. Because of the excess of workers a dozen Chinese or indians get paid significantly less than even a single American worker.
Jace Long
And it says a lot that they consider those wages a vast improvement over their previous situation.
Fun Fact: Foxconn recently laid off over 60,000 workers at its Chinese factories. Chinese wages have risen to the point where it saves money to start automating the jobs.
Hudson Walker
dub dubs of truth
Charles Howard
Why do you hate America?
Levi Harris
I was being facetious, user. The democrat controlled FCC has inhibited internet speeds the past 8 years. It's 2016, you should at least get 1 gbps service where you live for like $50. $75 for 30 is a joke.
William Sanders
Hey, I'd prefer no tax ever. But 7 years tax break, I'll take. It's the closest to a free market we can get. The government isn't going to give us complete control.
Connor Miller
Wow, I actually kinda like trump now. I now understand it's his retarded followers that I despise who actually believed his "lock her up" bullshit and other crap. I think I might vote for him in 2020.
Jose Russell
I love America. Which is why I want the American government, and the executive branch especially, cut down to size.
Brandon Morgan
>I am a concern troll
Ethan Moore
Dude. We have been giving money to ISP's for YEARS and not much has changed
John Cox
So what happens if you have an all-powerful government, and then someone either incompetent or actively malicious gets elected. I think that's what's just happened, but obviously you don't, so lets say that Hillary gets elected in 2020. The reason you should want a small government with an impotent presidency is to limit the damage that gets done when awful people get into leadership positions in government.
Easton Flores
the trumpets are now shilling for pajeet and ISPbucks
Kevin Ward
Better save some of that salt, it's going to be a long 8 years for you
Camden Parker
Jesus Christ. Imagine the boner he was fighting off.
Grayson Cook
>FLOTUS sexually abusing her son
bueno,
Andrew Ortiz
his son is so ugly
Isaac Baker
He's 10 and that's his mother. Stop projecting your mommy issues.
Austin Miller
So how long before porn of this is drawn and posted in a thread on /aco/
Benjamin Carter
He's a big guy
Jackson Moore
I used to be pro-NN but now from a free market perpective, fuck it. Let ISPs do what they want, and ask why they're losing customers to other ISPs later.
Jacob Murphy
Are people really this willing to give up their freedom?
Xavier Reed
In most parts of the country there are no other ISPs. In my neighborhood you can choose Comcast, Comcast, or Comcast.
Apparently, sadly enough.
Austin Murphy
He looks like picrel Even has the New Balance sneakers
Isaac Butler
The new subsidy is going to encourage new ISP startups tho, by allowing all-up-front investments in new ISP startups, and delaying taxes on those investments.
Andrew Lopez
What is your zip code?
Liam Robinson
The reasons why companies move overseas is to take advantage of the signifigantly lower minimum wages of nations like China and India so they can cut costs.
Landon Fisher
Good luck getting peering agreements.
Hudson Sullivan
my body is ready
Ryder Morales
Am I ready for more bullshit and unkept promises?
Yes.
Kevin Garcia
I live in an area like that, and my ISP installed fiber nearly a decade ago. They started offering gigabit speeds a few years ago but it's $200/month. Don't expect cheap internet.
Grayson Hernandez
In Illinois
first, this second, incumbent ISPs own the last mile (the cables to your house), and aren't obligated to lease or share them with anyone. In a lot of places friendly local governments have passed restrictions to get in the way of anyone building any competing infrastructure.
Juan Morris
Illinois is a big state. What is your zip code? People like you always whine about the big boogeyman ISPs screwing you over and yet never give any proof.
Colton James
I ain't telling you where I live, faggot. It's very easy to find areas with ISP monopolies or duopolies. Google it.
Wyatt Hill
Not the user you quoted, but a large area around 90005 is either ATT DSL or Time Warner. It's very common.
David Long
A zip code isn't an address faggot. You're the one claiming that Comcast is fucking you over, yet providing no evidence at all.
Carson Martinez
I only have one choice. But I live in the boonies and I am damn lucky to have anything at all. And it's Charter with no caps. So whatever.
Oliver Morgan
comcast is fucking everyone over. they increase my bill each year and they try to do it secretly. they also added data caps nationwide and throttling nationwide. and they funded democrats so the government sues any community trying to make their own internet service.