Because communication infrastructure is fundamental to our national security and prosperity, the U.S. must ensure its highest quality at lowest cost to all citizens.
Why is this important?
My friends in Europe and Asia can all phone me on their cell phones for pennies per minute, and don't have to choose among high-cost, low quality Internet service providers. The U.S. invented modern telecommunication technologies, why don't we have comparable quality-for-cost in this fundamental infrastructure? Is this really how "free enterprise" performs? If so, we are a terrible model and need to demand a better system!