”Robust competition” in the communications sector has changed...
"Robust competition” in the communications sector has changed how the FCC should act as a regulatory agency, but it “does not obviate the need for consumer-welfare-focused, economically-informed antitrust oversight where residual monopoly power remains,” wrote officials from the American Enterprise…
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Institute, Brookings Institution, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and others Wednesday to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. They encouraged the FCC to continue to be involved in issues like consumer protection, public safety, spectrum management and universal service, but said market-based approaches to those issues would “lead to better policy outcomes.” The FCC shouldn’t make the Internet a “regulated industry” and should dispense with its net neutrality order in favor of an approach that would “permit new forms of contracting, and to police any abuses after the fact,” the stakeholders said. The commission should also “redouble” its use of market-based approaches to manage spectrum, particularly in the context of the upcoming incentive auction, their letter said (http://bit.ly/1fkSdUn).