The Communications Workers of America represents 700,000+ union men and women at the nation’s cable, phone and wireless companies. These include engineers, field technicians, and others who know a heck of a lot about our telecom systems.

That’s why you ought to read a letter referenced in today’s Communications Daily (alas, no link available). Writing to House Judiciary Committee members, who are holding hearings today on regulating Net “neutrality,” CWA’s president Larry Cohen shoots down the idea that consumers will benefit from vast new federal regulations:

“The proposed net neutrality bill will result in the unintended consequence of delayed deployment of high-speed networks, with particularly negative impact on underserved communities.”

He goes on to say that if this neutrality regulation bill passes Congress, the U.S. “will fall even further behind the rest of the world [in broadband deployment], and our rural and low-income populations will wait even longer to enter the digital age.”

In addition to being required reading for every Member of Congress, this letter is a compelling rebuttal of the pro-regulation forces by those on the front lines (literally, the trenches) of our communications system.