This is awesome news for consumers and America's network infrastructure. What does this mean?
- Internet service (land and mobile) will now be classified as a Title II utility, common carriers - the same as telephone, water and electricity services.
- Municipalities are now legally allowed to act as ISPs, create their own network and provide cheap high speed internet (ex. a Kansas town is offering internet, using existing business infrastructure, 1Gbps/1Gpbs for only $39/mon)
- Ban on paid priority bandwidth. ISPs will no longer be ale to throttle usage or enforce pay bandwidth barriers. Ideally, companies like Netflix will no longer have to pay extra to ISPs for bandwidth usage.
Of course, ISP lobbyists (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon) are going to fight and scratch against this, but Tom Wheelor, FCC Chairman, has already said to bring on the lawsuits.
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