FCC: Just Go On AT&T's Payroll And Be Done With It
It depresses me that after almost a decade writing about telecom issues, I can see this headline posted at the FCC website:
"FCC Replaces Outmoded Long-Distance Rules With New Protections For Consumers."
And know immediately without digging that the rule change does absolutely nothing for customers and exists solely as a mechanism to improve phone company profit margins.
By "outmoded rules" the FCC usually means "rules that didn't allow our lords and masters to gouge consumers as they saw fit."
And what I love most are these weak-ass "eh, well we voted for it but we're not happy" statements from the totally spineless Democratic FCC Commissioners.
The FCC should just anoint the incumbent phone companies gods and be done with it. That or go on their lobbying payroll. This pretense that there's anybody left in DC that actually gives a flying zero gravity shit about consumers is a ridiculous farce, and insulting to the six of us who see what you're doing and think you've become AT&T eunuchs.