I'm all for more stringent regulation of the companies. The main reason I have dial-up is that Adelphia pledged several years ago to provide high-speed to all rural areas, and then made little or no progress on that pledge, which was the only reason they were allowed to lay cable in the first place. Now they are facing fines if they don't back up their old promise.

The point of that is that these companies should not be trusted and we should prevent them from establishing preferential treatment before they get entrenched in it.