I’m going to go out on a limb and say we should get rid of the ACP and maybe address the root of the problem. We have no competition to constrain internet prices. Most people live under a monopoly or duopoly ISP system while service providers enjoy little oversight. Under the current system, the price is whatever they think is the most you can pay. When consumers can’t pay, now they go to the government to extract even more money.
As it exists now, the subsidy is but another spoon these monopolies use to enrich themselves. If you want lower prices, you have to break them up or strictly regulate the services as utilities like they actually are. There are no other solutions.
This is but one of many ways the consumer is bent over the barrel in the current economic system.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say we should get rid of the ACP and maybe address the root of the problem. We have no competition to constrain internet prices. Most people live under a monopoly or duopoly ISP system while service providers enjoy little oversight. Under the current system, the price is whatever they think is the most you can pay. When consumers can’t pay, now they go to the government to extract even more money.
As it exists now, the subsidy is but another spoon these monopolies use to enrich themselves. If you want lower prices, you have to break them up or strictly regulate the services as utilities like they actually are. There are no other solutions.
This is but one of many ways the consumer is bent over the barrel in the current economic system.