<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:32 AM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2hu" style="overflow:hidden">Wonder what the downside of reclassifying broadband as a public utility<br>
would be? Unintended consequences?</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The only negative I can think of is that the incentive to innovate goes away -- you're guaranteed a rate of return regardless of how much you push the envelope.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Given our data rates (compared to most third-world nations), I'm not too worried about stifling innovation-- it seems to have died a while ago.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jeff</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>