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7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bullshit! These assholes have plenty of money to turn on the dark fiber out there and trench new cable if they just took the money they use lobbying and used that. They've been pulling this shit since forever. Here's just some recent history of their fuckery.

https://mashable.com/article/net-neutrality-cra-campaign-donations-scorecard

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/isps-spent-235-million-on-lobbying-and-donations-more-than-320000-a-day/

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?cycle=2024&ind=B09

ISPs should be local utilities.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah but consider this... they'd make less profit. So, you see your point is not valid to them. They are entitled to their level of profit and if anything endangers that then you simply need to charge more money.