Net Neutrality Won't Save the Internet. Competition Will

I think the details of networks will make neutrality hard to enforce. For electricity it's easy to measure if a utility is providing good service -- is the voltage and frequency correct, how much of the time is the service available. For telephone it's pretty easy too -- is there dialtone, how many calls aren't able to be completed because circuits are busy etc. For internet it's much harder: there are many ways to run a network, and many places congestion can happen, and I don't expect the FCC to issue effective guidance on oversubscription and interconnection policies that covers what people think of when they want neutral results. Ex: maybe a national network runs all their transit interconnection through Chicago and Dallas, but does regional peering with 'selected high traffic partners.' if you're small, you can't compete on latency for their coastal users, because you're not big enough to peer, and transit runs in the center of the country. ISP claims it provides cost benefits and network management benefits to connect to transit it only two locations.