Wheeler proposes to give Wi-Fi hotspots public utility status

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The full article can only be accessed via password, but the public excerpt shows enough to see that this would mean blanket exemptions for Wi-Fi hotspots in the public square– if they are deemed public utilities (Full article text pending)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tom-wheelers-other-web-takeover-1424821807

Feb. 24, 2015 6:50 p.m. ET

This week Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler plans to seize regulatory control over the Internet by declaring private broadband carriers to be public utilities. Less well known is that he also wants to usurp state authority to regulate municipal broadband networks………
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