> With high-speed internet, there are similar dynamics. Last year, the federal government declared that broadband should be treated like a utility, as essential as electricity or the phone.
That's incorrect. Net neutrality rules don't treat Internet like electrical or phone utility literally. There are many differences in practice. For instance utility rates can be regulated. Prices on Internet access aren't. It doesn't need to be regulated as much as other utilities, but some things certainly could be regulated, like for example when preventing anti-competitive abuse. If anything, FCC abysmally failed to outright ban data caps.
That's incorrect. Net neutrality rules don't treat Internet like electrical or phone utility literally. There are many differences in practice. For instance utility rates can be regulated. Prices on Internet access aren't. It doesn't need to be regulated as much as other utilities, but some things certainly could be regulated, like for example when preventing anti-competitive abuse. If anything, FCC abysmally failed to outright ban data caps.