 However, the dissenting opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, who was highly critical of the majority opinion and wrote that it was clear that cable ISPs should be treated as common carrier services as dial-up ISPs were.However, by the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Internet started to become common in households and wider society.Also in the 1980s, arguments about the public interest requirements of the telecommunications industry in the U.S. arose; whether companies involved in broadcasting were best viewed as community trustees, with obligations to society and consumers, or mere market participants with obligations only to their shareholders.