As you know, the Biden administration is on a mission: Protect consumers by letting them know exactly how much services are going to cost them. For some reason, internet providers and phone companies thinks this is VERY VERY UNFAIR and they shouldn’t have to do it! I am weeping! Via Yahoo News:
As Ars Technica first reported, Comcast wrote to the FCC earlier this month complaining that the order imposes “significant administrative burdens and unnecessary complexity.” The letter, signed by Comcast VP of regulatory affairs Jordan Goldstein, said that while “Comcast supports the Commission’s goal of providing consumers with clear, accurate, and easy-to-understand information,” it complained that the company is burdened by the need to itemize and share all the various government-imposed fees on their labels.
He added that extra fee bloat would require “a separate label” and that the company would need to create 251 labels to comply with the new rules. The number of new notices Comcast claims it would have to generate due to changes in state and local fees every year was redacted.
In addition, Comcast and its ISP fellows complained about the “significant undertaking” of the “alternate sales channels” requirement that the companies share when and how they pointed consumers toward these labels. The number of store visits as well as the number of records it would need to maintain were redacted from the letter.
I know it’s hard when things are not only complicated, they seem specifically designed to obfuscate. Believe me, I get it!
Now you know how the rest of us feel, Comcast.
In March, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the agency Gigi Sohn withdrew her nomination after years of stonewalling from Republicans in Congress. Sohn blamed the “legions of cable and media industry lobbyists” who worked to discredit her.
Payback!
