We’ve all become used to seeing nutrition labels on food products — many of which make me recoil in horror and walk out of my local supermarket in stunned sadness (looking at you, Snyder’s Pretzel Dips). But now, this level of mandated transparency is coming to the broadband industry, and I could not be happier.
After almost a decade of legal battles, the FCC is now requiring internet service providers (ISPs) to display costs, fees and speeds in a way that is very reminiscent of a nutrition label — giving consumers a lot more transparency to comparison shop with a lot more ease.
