Re: [Mesh] The FCC Did a Lot More Than Just Approve Net Neutrality Today

Hi! http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/02/fcc-did-lot-more-just-approve… "The Federal Communications Commission will allow some cities and towns to set up and expand municipal Internet services, overruling state laws that had been put in place to block such efforts." But it is also interesting, that as a regulated utility service that Internet now is, it means one can get also access to utility poles and other essential infrastructure owned by utilities, do deploy the Internet?

BTW, I think with classification of Internet as utility we got a half-solution. It would be much better to not try to make Internet be linked with old laws which were made before the Internet. They could just pass something new, say simply "net neutrality" bill, instead of trying to make Internet an utility. Because with utility there are also pretty strict regulations, which do provide neutrality, but also other requirements. So, not sure if this will then allow alternatives like community networks to ever legally present them as ISPs, because it would make them utilities and fall under all requirements, and paperwork.