Gentlemen:

I am in favor of strong net neutrality under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

My reasons are as follows:

Competition:

 Net neutrality does not prevent ISP companies from competing on the basis of faster service, cheaper price, more reliable service, more responsive service, more responsive representatives (e.g., staff with a better grasp of American English), etc. 

On the contrary, it prevents ISPs from strangling competition and gouging customers by slowing access to competitors' content.

Commercial Content:

 Those wishing to sell content over the Internet are welcome to innovate as they please, so long as they do not stifle competition by speeding content they get paid for while strangling competing content. Commercial content merely represents the use of the Internet by commercial concerns as a distribution medium for their own products for their own enrichment. It should never interfere with citizens' use of the Internet as a basic utility for communication.
 ISP-specified content should not be a requirement of Internet access, nor an arbiter of relative access rates.

Fundamentally a Communications Utility:

 An Internet-Service Provider basically provides access to the Internet, just like the old landline phone system provided access to the telephone switching network.
 When you signed up for phone service, there was no question of whom you were allowed to call within your local calling area.
 The phone company could not, for its own enrichment, block or slow down your access to some parties you called while speeding access to others.
 The phone company was not entitled to listen to your conversations and use them to target you with ads.
 Phone access became a basic public utility, part of how we communicated and did business with one another, part of the infrastructure of our society.
 It was the medium by which we connected with others, not the gatekeeper, or the bridge troll.
 The Internet has come to function in modern American life in much the same way. "Snail-mail" is little used for anything other than bills, ads, and official notifications. E-mail has largely replaced the Post Office for written communications, along with texting. We replaced landline phones with mobile phones and social media.
 The Internet is how many Americans come together to discuss issues and learn about each other's views, regardless of how many miles separate them. With video chatting, we can see and speak with family, friends, associates, partners, groups, or whatever, no matter where communicants are physically located.
 The Internet is a basic communication utility.


At its core, Internet access is a multi-media phone service, and is properly treated, and regulated, as such.

Sincerely,

Eric Smith