broadband service providers

Cable and phone trade associations and companies have told the Federal Communications Commission that they have problems with the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau's proposal to mandate outage reporting requirements on interconnected voice-over-Internet protocol and broadband-service providers.

One might have titled this story "Beware of government bearing gifts." We should be exceedingly wary whenever law makers begin dabbling with something that's been working exceedingly well for decades.

Today that thing is the Internet, perhaps the least-regulated industry in the U.S. today.