More billions are being wagered that soon, wireless Internet service will become as common as annoying cell-phone users next to you at lunch.
Within the existing legal definitions, there are good reasons to classify Internet access services as common carrier services as the FCC did in 2015.
Through these broadband conduits will flow interactive media and the always-on Internet services that will someday be as common as water and electricity.
There are some in Brussels who want the EU to develop a common intelligence-gathering service, as well as a "European Army" (see below).
One explanation for this finding may be that manual workers in service as well as smoking are more common among women, in this case the mothers, and both these factors were related to non-participation.
There was nothing unusual about this legal requirement; for more than 100 years, federal regulators had treated telegraph and telephone service providers as "common carriers," obligated to serve everyone equally.
The FCC stands poised to reclassify broadband service providers as common carriers, a category that would subject them to the same sort of regulation that telephone companies are saddled with, even giving the FCC the ability to set rates.
Thirteen senators called on Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler to reclassify Internet service providers as common carriers in order to protect net neutrality.
"The only way to accomplish the chairman's goals is to reclassify Internet service providers as common carriers.
Five months later, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") issued an order that reclassified mobile data service as a common carrier service.
