The FCC downplayed online video services’ impact in a report...
The FCC downplayed online video services’ impact in a report to Congress earlier this summer about competition in the video market (CD July 23 p6), a critic of regulation and the agency said Thursday. Online video was “for the first…
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time a major focus of the Video Report,” wrote fellow Seth Cooper of the Free State Foundation (http://xrl.us/bnontt). “But despite a mountain of evidence in the FCC’s Video Report showing that the video market is ‘effectively competitive,’ the FCC refuses to declare it so.” The document “fit[s] with the FCC’s pattern of ignoring or downplaying the competitive effect of cross-platform competition and close substitutes,” Cooper wrote of online video. “Video services will continue to be regulated under 1990s analog-era assumptions about cable monopolies that have no continuing basis in reality."