If we don't want the exodus of all our young people to urban areas, this is something really important to consider.

Yes, it does, and we also don't really know what all those implications are, as many of you have said.

39 percent said it's the only option available to them.

I am, like all of you, very concerned about what the implications may be.

the frustration for me is the responses to all of the points that all of you have made this morning have really been nonexistent.

Net neutrality and the importance of maintaining an open internet is very important as we think about innovation and creativity that's going on with our small businesses.

It seems to me that this goes in the wrong direction, that instead of opening things up to provide more innovation and more access, what we're talking about is closing things in a way that reduces access, reduces innovation, and that's not…

the biggest argument that I've heard for repealing net neutrality has been that, well, it will provide for more innovation.

I urge you to consider these impacts on the repeal of net neutrality rules and focus on advancing policies that foster fair competition.

For, again, so much of the State, because we're rural, it's the one way we have access to different specialties.

New Hampshire small businesses and micro businesses rely on the equalizing force of the internet.

Some of us remember that.

Can you elaborate on the impact on startups with a repeal of net neutrality, what that would mean for things like crowd funding and access to other investors who might be interested in a startup?

Uncertainty, whether it's around the internet or budgets or whatever it is, is a real problem for business in general.

At this time I would like to officially open the Small Business Committee's field hearing in Durham to explore the impact of net neutrality on New Hampshire's small businesses.

Absolutely, and I want to get back to the tele-medicine piece because it is so important in New Hampshire.

Small business owners have repeatedly expressed their concerns about what the impact of these changes would mean on their access to the internet.

It's a double whammy.