NCTA: Title II Would Be Terrible Mistake

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association says that classifying Internet access under Title II would be ditching 15 years of private sector-fueled growth and threatening continued deployment. NCTA said that classifying ISPS as common carriers would be a terrible mistake, would completely dismantle broadband deployment, and could lead to the broadband equivalent of the kind of potholes, water main breaks and blackouts that typify the nation's "crumbling" utilities. By contrast, it said, "Today’s Internet does not depend on the political process for its growth. And it does not suffer when we experience extended droughts of public funding that can last for years."