I think the most reasonable issue many people have is that, from a utility deployment perspective, inconsistent delivery of service is bad enough in of itself a

I think the most reasonable issue many people have is that, from a utility deployment perspective, inconsistent delivery of service is bad enough in of itself and should be fundamentally actionable without having to involve any discrimination laws. Who cares why ISPs are failing to provide a basic service to a chunk of the population? The government should be in a position to force their hand based on the fact that it's happening at all. And I can see both sides of the argument here. One one hand, yeah, it sucks to be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. On the other hand, government agencies' capacity at putting pressure on private enterprise has been severely neutered, and if this is what it takes to get essential services delivered, then whatever, I'll take it.