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    Get set: Your internet bill is about to soar, thanks to Trump's FCC

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Dec 12, 2017 3 minutes

    Thursday's the day that the Trump administration will overturn former President Obama's rules protecting consumers from greedy telecom companies manipulating internet access and pricing.

    I got a preview of what's to come over the weekend as my Spectrum internet bill soared by 20 percent - and as I encountered the take-it-or-leave-it policy imposed by Spectrum's owner, Charter Communications, which purchased Time Warner Cable last year.

    The Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote along party lines this week to end net neutrality. That's the policy ensuring broadband providers such as phone

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