Excuses are monuments to nothing, and build bridges to nowhere. Those who use these tools of incompetence are fools, fools, fools, and masters of nothing.

Excuses.

Comcast whined to the FCC last week about it being too hard to list its broadband fees to customers. They can keep raising fees and charging for hidden things, but they just can’t spell it out for you.

Comcast and other large broadband providers petitioned the government to give them more time to implement the FCC’s new labeling requirements outlining the fees charged to consumers. The labeling requirements are part of a new law passed by Congress in 2021.

Comcast Doesn’t Want You to Know What You’re Paying For

It’s a small thing, but most of can’t fully explain what we’re paying broadband companies for. The Universal Connectivity Charge (a tax), data toll fees, you name it are on these bills. The FCC is making it possible for people to know what they’re being charged.

Comcast would have no problem paying for all of those shiny paper products in marketing, but the real problem is that they don’t want you to know what you’re paying for.

The FCC is requiring broadband providers to list all of the fees you’ll pay on a label similar to the nutritional standards label on most food packaging. The labels would accompany the equipment boxes you install at home that provide service.

Billion dollar corporations can get anything they want to do done. Comcast’s beef is that it doesn’t want you to be an educated consumer and understand all of those nickels and dimes it collects from you.