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Biden administration wants to lower internet prices for Americans

US President Joe Biden's administration wants to slash Americans' monthly internet bills in an effort to accurately measure these costs more accurately. The edition told in more detail Axios.

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The White House Competition Decree, signed on July 9, includes a series of measures aimed at reducing how much consumers pay for the Internet.

Why is it important? The administration's push to measure Internet prices — and the broadband industry's counterargument that Americans actually pay less than consumers abroad — is a prologue to a broader debate about whether those prices should be regulated.

“There are many indications that their size is very far from a competitive rate and much more in line with what you would expect from monopoly or duopoly pricing,” said Tim Wu, special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy.

Consumer Reports has launched a project to collect and analyze price data from tens of thousands of customers sharing their monthly home internet bills.

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The goal of the Broadband Together Initiative is to document the prices and speeds of Internet services in U.S. communities and to analyze the factors that influence prices, including whether their providers face any competition.

“We know that where there is competition, prices are generally lower,” said Jonathan Schwantes, senior policy adviser at Consumer Reports.

If the bills show that consumers who use only one provider pay higher prices, "then we can make a case that some government intervention will actually help consumers," he said.

Also, in May, doxo, a consumer bill payment platform, calculated that the average monthly cost of the Internet in the United States is $ 116.

But this figure applies to both cable TV service and the Internet.

Meanwhile, President Biden's recent decree to encourage competition calls on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require ISPs to regularly report broadband tariffs to the agency in order to "increase price transparency."

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The FCC already collects some pricing information, but a number of factors—promotions, bundled rates, equipment fees—make it difficult to determine the true cost of service.

“Consumers benefit from greater transparency about their internet bills,” said FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. “This has always been true, but it became especially obvious during the pandemic when life moved online.”

“I think this is an important step to get a more accurate picture of exactly what amounts are being paid,” Wu said.

In response to a White House order, USTelecom, a trade group for broadband providers, said the price of the Internet was falling.

“The truth is that more Americans today have a choice of less expensive, more reliable and better broadband services than a year ago,” wrote USTelecom President Jonathan Spalter.

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