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🗓️ 17 December 2024
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0:26.4 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, December 17th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
0:36.4 | Internet plants now come with nutrition labels that disclose prices and speeds. But what do they look like and where can you find them? |
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0:48.3 | to co-lead the new Department of Government Efficiency. |
0:55.2 | But first, you know those nutrition labels you see on the side of cereal boxes? |
1:00.7 | This year, a rule from the Federal Communications Commission took effect that requires internet |
1:05.3 | service providers to list standardized price and speed data on labels that look like |
1:10.0 | nutrition fax panels on packaged |
1:11.6 | foods. These labels would allow consumers to compare internet plans. But WSJ reporter, Patience Hagen, |
1:18.2 | found that customers have difficulty finding them. And when they do find them, they're tough |
1:22.7 | to understand. Patience joins us now. Patients, where can I find these labels? |
1:28.3 | Because I've never seen one. |
1:30.3 | Yeah, see, they're required to be provided at the time of purchase. |
1:34.3 | So that's when you sign up for your internet plan online or in a store. |
1:40.3 | But they're kind of inconspicuous. |
1:42.3 | Like they're not in an obvious place, and a lot of people don't know they exist, don't even notice them when they're checking out. |
1:48.2 | In some cases, the way the company complies with that requirement is that on the checkout screen, |
1:53.7 | you'd have to notice a tiny link at the bottom and click that link in order to find it. |
1:58.4 | The whole idea of these labels was to give us an easy way to know what we're |
2:01.7 | paying for, maybe just as easy as looking at the side of a cereal box. But it's turned out to be |
2:06.9 | nothing like that for most consumers because it's so hard to find. Consumers don't know what's there. |
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