SusanCrawford

Susan here. High speed internet access is far too important as an essential infrastructure input to our national economy, and to our civic, social, and personal well-being, to leave it solely to a failed market, with no government oversight or fundamental rules of the road. FCC will have to reclassify. We just have to keep the pressure on.

No-little confusion there. This is not about "the Internet." This is about "Internet access." Different things. This is about the sidewalk, not the conversation.

The sidewalk should be treated as a regulated service - neutral, nondiscriminatory, serving everyone in the country - just like the telephone.

That treatment of telephone wires, by the way, gave us the commercial Internet. It was born of that nondiscriminatory policy. No regulation, no Internet.

Yes, actually. The house of cards has fallen. Pretending to deregulate with one hand while regulating (Open Internet Rules) with the other is not going to work. FCC will need to reclassify.

I'd suggest making FCC feel that it will have public support - whatever the GOP in the House does - for reclassification of high-speed Internet access as a regulated service. Need a lot of helpful support for that direction.

Better would be to rip up the streets in your city - just once - and install city-controlled dark (unlit) fiber. City never provides services itself - but allows for lots of retail competition. 5-6 providers! low prices! FTTH! Go to Stockholm, and you'll pay a quarter of what I pay in NYC. For a service that is 18 times faster on downloads and 167 times faster on uploads. That's what the US should do.