IP: PFF paper advises new FCC commissioners to deregulate now

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

why was I not surprised by their advice :-) djf


>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:00:13 -0400
>To: politech@politechbot.com
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>From: Randy May <rmay@pff.org>
>To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan@well.com>
>Subject: FCC Reform Agenda
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:21:34 -0400
>
>Declan---
>
>         With three new FCC commissioners expected to come aboard within a
>couple of weeks, I thought the Politech list might be interested in the
>paper I just released entitled, "A Reform Agenda for the New FCC".  In the
>paper I suggest that in order to carry out the "pro-competitive,
>deregulatory" professed vision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the
>new commission should do the following as quickly as possible: 1. Change its
>strategic objective from "market facilitation" to deregulation; 2. Establish
>a technology-neutral deregulatory regime for broadband services; 3. Reduce
>excessive forced facilities-sharing requirements on telecom networks; 4.
>Limit the scope of the "public interest" doctrine; 5. Establish an
>economically efficient regime for intercarrier compensation that gets rid of
>most of the subsidies built in to today's access charge and reciprocal
>compensation regimes.
>
>         This is an ambitious program and one not easily accomplished.  But
>the Commission must achieve real movement in this direction if we are going
>to have communications policies approppriate for the digital age.  The full
>paper may be found at http://www.pff.org/POP8.9ReformAgendaFCC.pdf
>
>         Thanks.
>         Randy
>
>
>Randolph J. May
>Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies
>The Progress & Freedom Foundation
>1301 K Street, NW
>Suite 550 East
>Washington, DC 20005
>Tel. 202-289-8928
>Fax.202-289-6079
>e-mail: rmay@pff.org
>
>
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