To: Tom Wheeler, FCC Commissioner and President Donald Trump
Save Small Internet Service Providers
Stop the FCC from making small ISPs comply with Title II public utility rules.
This is not Net Neutrality. It is a power grab to give the big phone/cable providers a strong
monopoly and saddle all American Internet customers with a 16.8% tax.
This is not Net Neutrality. It is a power grab to give the big phone/cable providers a strong
monopoly and saddle all American Internet customers with a 16.8% tax.
Why is this important?
On February 26 FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is calling a vote that will implement regulations that will reclassify all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities. This may seem reasonable. However, it will essentially shut down most small ISPs serving rural areas. We don't have the resources to comply with the Title II reporting requirements.
If that doesn't bother you, this might: The Universal Service Fund (renamed the Connect America Fund) is a tax that will apply to every Internet access customer in the land. It is currently 16.8%
If the regulation is allowed to go into effect, your $40 Internet bill will go to $46.72.
This money will be taken from all Internet users and selectively given (free of charge) to selected ISPs who will use it to build our their networks and replace your small, local ISP that they will have essentially driven out of business.
Once Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and a few other big players have taken over, they will be free to increase Internet access charges-- they will have no competition.
When you use up your monthly allotment of 10 Gigabytes of data (About 2 Netflix movies), and they start charging you for going over your data allotment, your bill won't be $200 for this "abuse" it will have the CAF tax applied so that you will be paying $233.60!
The Internet has grown to its current usefulness through an approach of little government regulation as a Title I Information service.
Please sign this petition and prevent this outrageous power grab.
If that doesn't bother you, this might: The Universal Service Fund (renamed the Connect America Fund) is a tax that will apply to every Internet access customer in the land. It is currently 16.8%
If the regulation is allowed to go into effect, your $40 Internet bill will go to $46.72.
This money will be taken from all Internet users and selectively given (free of charge) to selected ISPs who will use it to build our their networks and replace your small, local ISP that they will have essentially driven out of business.
Once Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and a few other big players have taken over, they will be free to increase Internet access charges-- they will have no competition.
When you use up your monthly allotment of 10 Gigabytes of data (About 2 Netflix movies), and they start charging you for going over your data allotment, your bill won't be $200 for this "abuse" it will have the CAF tax applied so that you will be paying $233.60!
The Internet has grown to its current usefulness through an approach of little government regulation as a Title I Information service.
Please sign this petition and prevent this outrageous power grab.