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> Title II is good for anyone who wants to build a good Internet Service Provider.

So that'd mean it's good for, at most, anyone who isn't in the set { Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, ... }.



No, not really. It would likely commoditize the service of providing Internet addressable IP routing and set it on a path for cutting all of the margin out of the business for the ISP, while likely doing nothing to cut the overall cost of the combined service to the consumer. The companies that own the lines would still take the lion's share of the profit under a title II scenario - they'd just take it in different ways than they do today. Line sharing rules weren't effective for DSL, and I don't see how the same dance played out 15 years later would have any different results.

We need to do something, I just don't think title II is the right way to go.




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