isn't lobbying another way of saying legalized bribery?

@qthe6thman

3 жыл бұрын

yes

I used to live on the edge of a fairly large city. about 2 or 3 miles out of town on a fairly major road, where quite a few people live. The ISPs there refused to run cable for internet, always asked the customers to pony up to lay wire. The amount of money required was astronomical. We asked the city about it but since we were all just outside of their limits they refused any help. This struggle went on for about 2 or 3 years before I left in late 2012, and apparently no expansion has been accomplished since. This relegated my family to Satellite internet (useless pile of shit) and 3G when it became large enough where I lived. Then Data caps were introduced and what not, which was actually a forcing factor in my family's decision to move into town after I left for the air force. I had always been frustrated by it but had no idea the scale of the problem until i started watching The Tek. Its simply outrageous that this is allowed. I'm glad We have these guys on our side though. Even though now my internet speed is usable for my purposes, I'm still stuck with a 200 GB cap before some throttling ensues. Its Bolshevik.

@yourlocalm1404

10 жыл бұрын

I feel you my friend I live exactly 1 mile away from where it stops the only place I do have internet is at my grandparents

@shanester366

10 жыл бұрын

I got some friends who live outside the city and they have to use satellite and man that stuff is terrible.

@eriksandstrom7668

10 жыл бұрын

That is annoying. We have to pay $5000 for fiber here :(

@1atblridkcoem1atblridkcoem9

11 ай бұрын

so according to this article, the reason it is so expensive was becuase the 'big corpo' lobbied for lots of hurdles for people to install their own wire?

lesson to be learned. You depend on government to do the right thing you get screwed.

@visu550

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t have been said better

@SerialChiller1000

Жыл бұрын

I disagree entirely. It depends on whose interests the government serve. We elect them to serve our interests, full stop.

@robroy6374

Жыл бұрын

wrong. brewmaster95060 is right. dont be a sheeple.

Great video guys. This is easily one of, if not the best channel on KZread. Always entertaining and very informational.

Indeed, in Romania we have gigabit Ethernet for around 30-40 $ but our economy makes us not wanting to get high speeds. In a country where you monthly salary is around 300-500 $, paying 40 $ just for the internet ( without TV or mobile ) is quite expensive.

@xPokemonPlayerx

10 жыл бұрын

qt

I was hoping to find out what the The 1996 Telecommunications Act stand on health. I don't expect you cover that but this was very interesting on how insanely few hands have so much control over telecommunications, but that imo is typical.

Cheers for making this guys, it's really important that people are made aware of what's happening.

Shared this on my clan website, and our fb page. Keep up the good work guys.

Recently discovered your channel. I love it, and this was a very informative video. Keep up the good work guys!

A documentary with Logan and Wendel would be awesome, would watch at least 3x !

Ah some Inbox.exe for my video editing grind, Thanks Tek Syndicate! ;D

A minute of silence to all our brothers with

Can't wait to see the documentary. I wonder if they have started to work on it already.

Im actually watching this video for my Journalism class. I never thought Tek Syndicate would ever help me in school lol

Thanks so much for this video! We need more of this.

I really love teksyndicate and there community.;)

Thank you very much for posting this. We need something to happen.

Could you guys put a together the bullet points on this discussion? There's a lot of good information here but it's difficult to distill it into something that's actionable. Also what reforms to the TA of 1996 would you suggest?

spread the word :D

@imbleu1067

10 жыл бұрын

raze the world :)

@WarpPal

10 жыл бұрын

G. Minus Amaze the Board ;]

We just need to stop giving government money to them. And remove all that stuff you need to pay for when you want to lay your own cables, so small company's have a chance to compete.

Love the information and am really looking forward to more ways to make it better. Kirk is either getting mobbed by tribbles or fruit flavored tic-tacs. :)

Thanks for this videos, I sincerely cannot find any other source that gives a dissecting view of this issues.

thanks logan n pals!

Please make the documentary. Keep spreading the word.

Anyone else taking an hour out of their day to watch this in 240p?

@upliftsleet1974

10 жыл бұрын

How about 2 hours for 144p? Gotta love living in the sticks...

Shared. I agree with you guys. It is important those in the know get the word out.

Great episode

This is an awesome video! Any chance you want to do an update on the ramifications of Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the additional years since this video was first posted?

@1atblridkcoem1atblridkcoem9

11 ай бұрын

this would be great!

Logan rocking that The Black Dahlia Murder shirt

Guys with glasses, fantastic camera angle you have there.

Everyone should watch this!

That Bill Clinton impersonation was perfect

Reading the webpost on the video about the act, and seeing in the side "Australia is fucked"... LOL xD

Your impersonation works for both Clinton AND Gore. You have the gift of sounding like both simultaneously.

23:20 That's how most of norway is provided internett at the moment, although the state owned telenor still has a monopoly on some very far away areas with rampant packet loss and amazing speeds of up to 3 megabits in some select lucky areas

It is why the Media is what it is today. They warned it would create Randolph Hearst's and it sure did.

If you guys are going to make a documentary, I would gladly donate to the cause.

Please do a documentary!

The 1996 telecommunications act was used to further concentrate white wealth just like the federal reserve or corporate regulatory capture.

19 mins in, top blog post says it all.

i would really like to see this documentary come out because more people need to know about this and understand how bad these business practices before this turns into Stockholm syndrome and people say "no i like being bent over by isps and receiving zero benefits from this parasitic relationship"

Thank you

The us internet situation sucks in Victoria bc sobeys bought thriftys an Safeway but had to sell most of the safeways to save on food because of competition laws

In Pennsylvania they have started to provide the option of getting electricity from different electric companies using the infrastructure of PPL. this is what needs to be done with internet they mentioned it. the same was done with dial up the same can be done with this

Just wrote a research paper on this for school........... my teacher was SO confused.

The isp in my town does not have blazing speeds unless you pay alot but $40 a month gets you 10 up 1 down and not caps plus there overhauling the infrastructure to all fibre

Thanks

The internet in Australia is still over phone lines I classify internet in Australia as direct radio

In Australia we had the nbn FTTP to 93% of households but now it is going away :( all because the guys in power are all old men and do not have any clue how beneficial FTTP was going to be and how FTTN is not a suitable replacement

I live 50 yards from the Time Warner cable lines. BUT!!! It will cost 15000 dollars to cross the train tracks between me and them.

From Romania here, and we pay 15$ a month for gigabit from RDS-RCS

I checked my old ISP in Sweden(Com Hem). I am not shitting you right now they have 500-1000 mb/s down and 50-100 mb/s up. That is the most expensive package but at least it's available NOW. Luckily I'm moving back to Sweden in a couple years so I'll be counting the days till I can download a big file like Titanfall in potentially under a minute.

@sommermant

10 жыл бұрын

i used comhem (until i moved) in Uppsala and got TV and 100 mb down internet for around 30 dollars a month

@MrBlackRapp

10 жыл бұрын

Tristan Sommerman Yeah but sweden is the best country in the world (IMO) so I kinda expect that.

Did you ever make a documentary kickstarter? I'll help with editing & animation.

Keep talking about it!

"Soffffft Xylophone." "Soffffft Xylophone."

I love The Black Dahlia Murder shirt, I've seen them a couple of times!

Great video needs to be longer

Music makes you do better on tests... listening to certain types of music while studying also makes your retention better...

" tell me more my master " :D

Internet: The Musical

Had to sign in just to say: soft xylophone, yes!

is there in this legislation a basis for a class action suit with which we can force the fiber optic infrastructure upgrade ???

in my country they are starting with delivering 1 gigabit a second woehoe and that for 74 euros with cell phone, it started with week ago with 2 citys its on fiber btw and in holland

i love when you guys talk about the ISP's bullshit and the NSA bullshit

I live in Romania, 1GB fiberlink is ~18dollars. and that includes TV.

@mayamaya-kn8mk

5 жыл бұрын

😂

I agree what he said about the internet not being the internet.

Its like listening to Wilson from the other side of the fence!

the mystery man there he his

In sweden every house must have fiber connections and every house that gets built must be built with fiber

Nice intro

These buyouts are against the Sherman Anti Trust Act. However who controls the spice controls the universe.

If you guys put up a crowdfunding project for the documentary you speak of I'm certain that you would get funding to do it.

i see u @ 1.08

Meanwhile in the Netherlands; 100mbit symmetrical FTTH for €68/month including phone and HDTV subscription. 500/500 internet+phone-only for €71/month. It's an outrage what's happening in the states :(

Wooh!

My company call it Fibre, although its just 50Mb/s over copper cable..

@nanocoffeebean

10 жыл бұрын

***** Nice avatar.

Learn Morse code! Good job gentlemen.

We don't have free market competition in the U.S. If we did, we'd have internet that is practically free at lightning speeds. Instead, we have oligopoly - price fixing. We pay a small fortune for subpar internet, and an even bigger fortune for fast internet. Where does the money go? The .01 percent. CEO bonuses. Preferred shareholder stock portfolios. Capitalism. It's like this in every industry. Even the housing market is rigged with speculative Wall Street investment banks driving the prices through the roof. Housing is virtually unaffordable in America in most areas, especially on the East and West coast. You have to make $30.00 an hour to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in almost every East and West coast housing market.

- Hey all this communicating seems getting popular. Lets raise the prices!

I feel like Vice would make a doc about this

Please do the "documentary" so i can send it to Sen. Franken.

Wendell the 1 Gb internet connection in Romania is about 19$. Also speaking of those phone companies allowed(actually our FCC forced them to allow access) to the big dogs infrastructure one of them after being allowed access has come up with a 5 euro a month plan that has unlimited minutes, 5 GB internet at 21,6mb (after you hit that 5 Gb you are limited to 128 kps)

europe here. i pay 80 us dollars for a 20mbit connection. my isp could technically provide me with 1gbit but they won't sell it to me unless i opt into their highest tier digital tv package which costs 190$ per month + another 80$ for the actual 1gbit connection. i dont even own a tv but the 20mbit is all i can get without buying one of these combo packages.

I really want do do something about this but I have no idea what

Blue Ribbon Campaign. I supported it.

Fortunately it only cost me around $300 to have a line dug up to my residence in a rural area. From what I understand there is fiber to the box just down the road. I'm still getting 256 Kbps at times on a 3 Mbps $51.00 subscription though unfortunately. It all comes back to ISPs not upgrading enough for the increase in their subscription base. Nobody seems to be holding them to any decent standard. They are also the best option in my area for my wants.

@Prich038

10 жыл бұрын

256Kbps is not enough to watch KZread in 144p O.o

in australia we are only starting to get optic fibre in some places. since I live in a town that is quite small, maybe population of 500. we dont even get fibre, we have no choice. If we want alright internet we have to put up with fixed wireless which is equalivent to like LTE or 4g, our maximum speed is 25/5, which is better than our current ADSL2+. If think your getting a bad deal in the US, think of the people that are stuck with crappy internet

AT&T won’t even compete with Spectrum in my area even with a housing boom! We can only use Spectrum! There is no competition! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

In Finland broadband is sort of cheapish, but oh boy, talk about mobile, we're getting as much as the LTE network gives for like 10 bucks.

Yay

I live in Guatemala and I am offered 1Mbps. Real stats are ~800Kbps Download and ~300Kbps upload for about USD$40.00 a month. There are only 2 Home internet providers and the Mobile companies also provide 4G and 3G USB modems with a 10GB data limit for the same monthly fee. Mobile phone companies also provide a prepaid access with their modems, with the cheapest option being USD$2 for 1G or a 24hr period (which ever is longer). The fastest Home Internet option is their offering of 10Mbps for about USD$100/monthly.

lol, i just got a job with Comcast..First Company who took MY Fresh I.T Deg

I love that people are complaining that Logan and Wendell are always talking about the US. News flash they live in the US. Most of their viewers are from the US. Things in the US matter to them more because of those reasons. If I don't want to hear what they are saying on a subject I just move on and watch someone else for a day. Also one of the primary reasons the US(and other very large and spread out countries) has been slow to grow is that it is a tedious(and expensive) process to put fiber everywhere in larger countries. Hopefully competition from google will help push it along.

My area is upgrading later this year to 60 Mbps

Sadly the documentary was never made... Would be nice if it did.

Fair exchange isn’t a crime, fast exchange isn’t highway robbery.

Somebody call Mike Moore

in1998 my internet cost being unable to use the second line at the same time and $5 per month. now I havesomething like $60 or $70 for my internet, even if it is 2000 times as fast

Yep, 20 dolars for gigabit internet in Romania, the price also includes cable tv :D.

Not good enough I need Morgan Freeman to narrate this video for me