The opening image is of a local prospering business, providing a public service for sale in a professional and economical manner, and net neutrality will aid that situation to continue.
Under FCC proposed rules recently formulated, Internet Service Providers cannot screw consumers as much as the big firms would like, in their ideal world, to be able to do.
Limitations would be put on how grossly firms might rig their operations. They cannot discriminate against VoIP for example, despite a link provider player being Comcast and selling cell phone services.
Proposed rules would apply to fiber connections over the Web and from the ISP all the way to your home via a cable modem or DSL --- AND to your being serviced via wireless links as their usage expands.
Comcast, for example, for some time was stomping on peer-to-peer downloading; and under the new rule proposal, they cannot continue that.
For details, view this Wired link.
Independent local ISPs can continue to serve in competition with the giants. Under favorable level-playing-field proposed rules.
The household here buys its ISP link from IP House [opening imgage].
Little local guys.
We use DSL:
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Support local business when you can, and especially when local business is a better deal -- more responsive and better motivated to meet consumer needs vs. selling stuff to you and others that is not needed but profitable to a big-guy firm's bottom line.
My sister has been particularly happy with the IP House phone tech service - based on measures of courtesy, promptness, responsiveness and helpfulness of responses demonstrating professional capability and ability to deal with a range of customer attitudes and skill sets. Never a bad service call. Never a long queueing on hold with awful elevator. Not having to navigate a five minute recorded if you want this, press that spiel. Not having somebody in Bangalore or the Philippines ultimately answering in ways unattuned to regular US customer expectations. These are Twin Cities metro people, all around.
Bravo on all counts.
(And that's in part for those thinking I do not do anything but complain and disdain. It's not true.)