I am writing to comment on the proposed changes to the way in which telecommunications providers are treated with respect to Title 2 and net neutrality. 

Personally, I am a consumer of telecommunications services and information services and understand the difference between the two as distinct providers of different services. When I consume Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Hulu, I am consuming information services that create, curate, and aggregate various media content. In order to consume these services, I need a data pipe to connect me to the Internet. The pipe that connects me is a telecommunications service. It has no inherent information of its own, it simply serves as a medium for the transmission of information, much like telephony services served as a medium for the transmission of voice. As such I believe strongly that the internet service providers (ISPs) that provide the data pipelines are, and should remain, classified as Title 2 regulated telecommunications common carriers.

Additionally, permitting ISPs to prioritize and monetize data pipes as unregulated information services would strongly discourage and inhibit the entrepreneurial environment in which so much of our information economy has been built. Having to pay extra for access to customers, or an ISP charging individual subscribers additional costs for access to a startup company's services will inhibit the ability of small companies to develop competing services by creating a cost barrier to entry in which the large corporations can out pay the small companies. My livelihood depends upon these smaller companies as I make my living as a technologist working for small technology companies with new ideas.

To sum up my comments, I and against any changes to the classification and treatment of ISPs and believe in Title 2 regulation and oversight of ISPs as well as being a strong supporter of "net neutrality".