Dear Commissioners,

The proposal to stop treating ISPs as telecommunications carriers ignores current facts about how people communicate today. Internet-based communications have replaced the telephone partly or entirely for many of our citizens, including my friends and family members. By allowing ISPs to select which communications they allow, or pricing their own content lower than competitors', you would be ignoring decades of regulatory practice for the telecommunications industry. ISPs would use their monopolistic position to censor communications or enrich themselves at the expense of citizens.

Additionally, my experience shows that Spectrum is unwilling to support third-party VoIP service at the same level of transmission quality as they provide for their proprietary services. Switching to Spectrum VoIP would cost my family an additional $300 / year. There is no technical rationale for this; it's simply a monopolistic practice. Repealing net neutrality would further threaten third-party providers that I rely on.

Thank you,
Sam Kingsley
New York, NY