Yes we did win. No more net neutrality. And yet like before, no one with the ability to pay is being denied access. Free and open access is not what net neutrality was about.
1. It was about not charging people who had high data consumption more than the people who used less.
(like the guy who watches streaming 4k all day or or the dude selling pirate dvds and is constantly downloading and deleting to save hd space)
2. It was also about not charging people more for reducing the overall bandwidth availability for everyone than the people who stayed at or below the expected bandwidth share.
(like the 100's of families of 4 around me, all watching netflix on different tvs)
Since net neutrality infrastructure hardwire expansion and improvement has slowed to a crawl, where as cellular expansion had boomed because of the "already excepted by the population" pricing scheme.
The real problem is the government sanctioned monopolies. How many hardwired isp choices do you have? Two if you are lucky and they aren't comparable. One can deliver up to 100 mbs depending on equipment and bandwidth availability, the other up to 3 mbs is advertised it is unshared but depends on the quality of the coper wire and distance between you and the phone company hub. Oh and there is a maximum distance you can be from the hub, if you are outside the range your choices are cable if available and standard dial up. Dial up HAHAHAHAHA I am the only person I know with a non voip home phone. Hell My father and I are the only people I know with a home phone.
Back to government sanctioned monopolies. When I lived in Brighton my next door neighbor and I had different cable companies and we literally could not switch. We where in apartments but because of where the arbitrary border landed....
Then there is satellite, if you check out the maps, in most areas there is no overlap of company coverage. Once you look at those maps and see that the coverage areas are not circles you start to understand that once again you have a government sanctioned monopoly. Oh and the one time I bothered to call up my would be provider to find out how much satellite internet would cost I ended up asking them If they wanted my first born too.
Break up those area monopolies and watch competition drive down prices.