walter mccormick, president and ceo of u.s. telecom, and chris lewis of public knowledge, he's the vice president there. mr. mccormick, in the year or so since the fcc made the decision on net neutrality, how has that affected your member companies? >> guest: it doesn't affect us operationally day-to-day because the open internet standards are standards that we agree with; the no blocking, the no throttling, the no paid authorization. we have supported their adoption as regulations under 706 authority, we support their enactment into law by the united states congress. but what we objected to was the way in which the fcc went about the open internet standards i. adopted them as regulations pursuant to common carrier authority. this is a 19th century form of regulation, originally applied to common carriers like railroads, trucking companies and airlines. it has been repealed for all of those traditional common carriers, and we don't think common carrier regulation is the right form of regulation for the 21st century internet, so

walter mccormick, president and ceo of