Great intentions - completely wrong way to make it happen.<p>Regulating the broadband internet market will just make people in metropolitan areas subsidize the cost for people in rural areas. If it ended there...sure it wouldn't be fair, but at least it would be a zero sum game (some win, some equally lose). But with regulation that's never the case because:<p>1. you introduce additional costs for government oversight<p>2. you discourage new entrants to the market, thereby reducing competition<p>As Milton Friedman said, you can never judge a government program by it's intentions, only the results it gets.<p>Free markets and unbridled competition have a much better track record of driving prices down, making new technologies available to the masses.<p>Cost of flat panel TV's (unregulated) have cut in half every 18 months since they came out. What was once a toy for the rich is now available even to poor people.<p>Cost of health care (regulated, and increasingly a technology product) has steadily increased each year.