"...if broadband isn't a telecommunication service then what is the telecommunication service it is over?" Exactly. The most they can argue credibly is that i

"...if broadband isn't a telecommunication service then what is the telecommunication service it is over?" Exactly. The most they can argue credibly is that it's both, not that it's only an information service. And frankly, even saying it's both is an admission of a conflict of interest on the part of the telecom companies. It's a bad idea to have the "information service" and the "telecommunications service" be owned by the same people. But the companies to which Pai and the FCC are apparently playing errand-boys have been doing everything they could in recent years to blur the line. OK fine then, blur the line; in some ways it was an arbitrary distinction anyway. (All communications involves information and all information insofar as it gets transferred involves communication.) But that means you're either 1) strictly a telecom 2) a telecom while maybe being an info svc too, and therefore in a conflict of interest, which I think we should remedy by regulating you as a telecom 3) an information service