I think the point he's making is that 1) by taking certain options off the table (e.g. metered pricing), you are removing the ability of new entrants or other

I think the point he's making is that 1) by taking certain options off the table (e.g. metered pricing), you are removing the ability of new entrants or other challengers to come compete with a new pricing model (as T-Mobile did in the case he highlights in the article), and 2) the stakes are really high; if the regulations are even slightly negative, multiplied across the entire digital economy of the world, getting this wrong could have a major impact. > ISPs have to do exactly what they've been doing for decades - nothing. Just leave packets alone and pass them along. Well, do nothing except for invest billions of dollars in building out new and faster networks to keep up with ever-increasing customer demand for data.