Ten years ago, the Federal Communications Commission wandered off the reservation and away from 100 years of communications history by labeling high-speed Internet access services as "unregulated."
Theoretically competition would take the place of any regulation.
So, even though high-speed Internet access is the modern-day equivalent of the telephone — basic to everything we do in life — providers have been treated not as "common carriers" but as private businesses.
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