<div dir="ltr">The US has a 100+ year history with regulated utilities and, as a result, a well-developed body of case law surrounding that.  This recent decision is unprecedented, and if allowed to stand, it effectively removes the FCC from having authority over broadband -- which in turn makes it nearly impossible for the FTC or any other agency to act. <a href="http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/no-the-draft-net-neutrality-repeal-does-not-restore-us-to-2014-and-2014-wasnt-exactly-awesome-anyway/">http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/no-the-draft-net-neutrality-repeal-does-not-restore-us-to-2014-and-2014-wasnt-exactly-awesome-anyway/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Owen Densmore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net" target="_blank">owen@backspaces.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Shouldn't broadband be a utility .. like water, gas, etc? Not that that would necessarily be great here in NM, but..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Bottom line: I think the NN issues are secondary to just admitting broadband is a utility.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">   -- Owen </div></font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><span style="background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span></span></span>Kurt Albershardt  |  Mimbres Communications, LLC  |  575-342-0042</pre>
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