Sean Adl-Tabatabai – All of the major ISP companies think poor people deserve slower Internet speeds than the rest of the population.

In an extraordinary meeting between an ISP industry group and the Federal Communications Commission (FSS) in the US, ISP representatives argued that they should be paid by the government to slow down the Internet speeds of people living in poor neighborhoods. And we already know how difficult it is to get internet, especially when there’s so few choices of internet providers.

Theregister.co.uk reports: In a letter recording a meeting between the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) and the legal advisors to two FCC commissioners, the industry group “emphasized that the Commission’s goals would be better served by directing support to areas that lack any service at all and those that have access only below 10/1 Mbps.”

The current definition of broadband is 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. That was introduced in 2015 and replaced an older, outdated definition of 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Continue reading →