CTIA Pres. Tom Wheeler said FCC decision to open a notice of inqu...
CTIA Pres. Tom Wheeler said FCC decision to open a notice of inquiry on collection of wireless competition data was start of Commission effort to expand regulation of wireless industry (CD June 14 p4). Wheeler told Communications Daily that…
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federal regulators would collect data from wireless industry in similar fashion as they do for monopoly phone services. “It’s the first step down a slippery slope towards oblivion,” Wheeler said. “It'd be used as a tool for regulation that would impose monopoly standards on a competitive market.” He said he was “dumbfounded, swept away, aghast,” at FCC decision. He charged federal regulators were increasingly anxious to impose new restrictions on wireless industry.