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September 28, 2019 02:02 am PDT

Every word Ajit Pai says about Net Neutrality is a lie, including "and" and "the"

Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rammed through an illegal Net Neutrality repeal by claiming that the Obama-era Net Neutrality rules slowed down investment in broadband, depriving Americans of fast internet.

After he killed Net Neutrality, Pai went on to claim that the ISPs had finally started investing in infrastructure build-out and maintenance.

He lied. About everything.

Under Obama's Net Neutrality rules, the ISPs did not make meaningful investments in upgrading their infrastructure. After Net Neutrality rules were abolished, they continued to underinvest, with no difference between the two states. In both cases, America's ISPs steadily raised prices while undermaintaining their networks, turning American broadband a global joke of high prices and bad service.

A peer reviewed study from George Washington University examined earnings reports and SEC filings of 8,577 unique companies from Q1 2009 through Q3 2018, and found that systematic underinvestment has been endemic to the US telcoms sector for more than a decade, unchanged by Net Neutrality or its repeal.

Many phone companies, for example, have refused to upgrade or even repair their aging DSL lines because theyre now focused on more profitable ventures like wireless advertising. Given huge swaths of America only have the choice of one ISP to choose from, theres often little organic pressure for ISPs to put soaring profits back into the network or customer service.

Despite clear evidence disproving the net neutrality killed broadband investment theory, both Pai and the telecom industry have repeatedly made the claim the cornerstone of public relations efforts for years, apparently hoping that repetition would forge reality.

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