The U.S. leads Europe in many broadband metrics,...
The U.S. leads Europe in many broadband metrics, contrary to reports that the European model of service-based competition “outperforms the facilities-based competition in the U.S.,” University of Pennsylvania law professor Christopher Yoo told FCC Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly…
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in separate meetings June 6, said an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 14-28 (http://bit.ly/1i5zKRl). Yoo discussed his recent paper finding that a far higher percentage of U.S. households were served by 25 Mbps Internet networks compared with European households. The U.S. approach of promoting facilities-based competition has been more effective in ensuring speedy Internet than the European approach of service-based competition and unbundling, Yoo said. The U.S. approach promotes broadband investment, while the European approach has the opposite effect, Yoo said, citing figures of $562 worth of broadband investment per U.S. household versus $244 per European household. Yoo released his study earlier this month, and it was funded by Broadband for America, which represents ISPs and other high-technology companies (CD June 5 p3).