The FCC should “repurpose itself institutionally in order to more...
The FCC should “repurpose itself institutionally in order to more effectively accomplish repurposing of spectrum,” Free State Foundation President Randolph May said in a Monday blog post. “What would this repurposing of the FCC entail? In the main, simply this:…
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The Commission should substantially reduce the resources it has been devoting for the past several years to considering the competitiveness of the wireless market, and redirect those resources to implementing actions that will increase the amount of spectrum available for use by wireless operators,” May wrote (http://xrl.us/bmziav). “I want to make it clear I am not suggesting the competitiveness of the wireless marketplace is not a legitimate government concern, even if I and many other observers assert the market is presently competitive. I am suggesting, however, that any such competitive concerns ought to be left primarily in the hands of the antitrust authorities for resolution under antitrust jurisprudential principles rather than under the FCC’s indeterminate public interest standard."