Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled plans to launch publicly-funded broadband networks and break up big internet providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T Thursday. "Their greed must end," the Sanders campaign wrote in its high-speed internet policy
Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled plans to launch publicly-funded broadband networks and break up big internet providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T Thursday. “Their greed must end,” the Sanders campaign wrote in its high-speed internet policy proposal.
“The internet in this country costs too damn much,” the proposal reads. “The United States ranks 10th of 28 countries in average broadband speeds and 18th out of 23 countries in fixed broadband prices, charging double the prices of many peer countries.” The idea of local, publicly-owned broadband networks is not new, but has in the past faced strong opposition from internet providers, including lobbying efforts to pass state laws that make it harder to build these kinds of networks. Sanders said that he’d preempt such laws, and take action against some of the companies pushing for their passage.
Not only does his proposal call for the full reinstatement of net neutrality and for classifying broadband as a public utility, but Sanders also threatened to “unwind anticompetitive vertical conglomerates” and bar internet service providers from also providing content.
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