Something's rotten in Denmark. My understanding was that corporations like Verizon and Comcast WANTED this to pass. Matter of fact, Verizon recently relinquished their terrestrial assets (home phone and cable TV) to Frontier in what was presumed to be a hat tip to the coming regulations. The corporations have been wading through the FCC Title II swamp for decades, they're not strangers to it.
The only thing this will do is raise prices on Internet access for end users while degrading the quality of Internet signal. As networks age and ISPs cannot afford to upgrade, they either raise the prices through the roof to afford menial gains in bandwidth and throughput, or the "pipes" fall apart and eventually Internet becomes spotty across the nation.
Make no mistake, this was a power move on the part of the Obama administration, and the fact that they are STILL not releasing the regs tells me that it's MUCH worse than even what we currently know/fear.
Have you ever heard of “outernet” ?
Stuff like this will force expansion of outernet.