Hard to tell what the impact of this is since the details are not out. So far, most discussion has been around billing for tiered bandwidth access, which by taking that away will slow down innovation as it takes the incentive away to develop improvements. The rest seems to be speculation....imho
Where I live, in a semi-rural area with my house about 1400 feet from the nearest main road, we have no access to wired broadband.
The telco and cable company have told me, (albeit politely) to pound sand, I'm not getting a broadband connection as far into the future as they can see it.
So I'm stuck with satellite or wireless internet, with data caps that make anything other than web surfing or E-mail unavailable. Stream a movie? Yeah, maybe once a month, with a break for buffering every ninety seconds or so.
So when the broadband companies start whining about how they won't be able to "innovate", I find myself here: