[rossriley]

Out of interest, from a US point of view since I'm not there, is this going to end up as a relatively damp squib in the very near future now we have access to 5G and all the competition there.

Last year I was able to abandon completely my broadband provider and now have two sims, one for a home router and one for a mobile router with pretty much unlimited data.

There is so much competition in the 5G mobile space that the ability of these older closed market providers over cable/fiber is surely going to be a thing of the past very soon and thus the need to enforce legal neutrality will fade?

[bregma]

Net neutrality is more about backhaul and peering. None of that goes away with more competition at the subscriber level. In fact, it become far more significant.

[michaelt]

As I understand it, historically in the US many people have only had access to one broadband provider.

So an American couldn't move to a different broadband provider if their current provider made Netflix slow.

On the other hand, if 5G technology had such great performance and coverage that every American had a choice of 10-15 different ISPs, when one ISP slowed down Netflix they could simply change providers.

That might make it less problematic for some ISPs to make Netflix slow.

[guenthert]

I wouldn't count on true competition to last.