Consumer Reports, an independent nonprofit research organization best known for its product reviews, launched its Fight for Fair Internet study in July 2021.Worse, the magazine found this to be true across many of the 526 domestic ISPs examined during the study—including all 26 of the largest providers, which cover more than 90 percent of the country’s services.“They can surprise consumers when they appear on monthly bills, and can enable providers to raise prices without seeming to violate marketing or contractual price commitments.”ISPs often boast higher speeds than their competitors’—a factor that increasingly weighs on consumers’ minds as more people work and attend school online.ISPs are clearly happy to take advantage of less web-savvy consumers, who are unlikely to realize they’re receiving far slower speeds than they’re paying for.A majority of those who participated in the study support municipal or community broadband, but 17 states have laws prohibiting that very thing, likely as a result of ISPs’ political interference."