The FCC appears unlikely to step in to address usage-based...
The FCC appears unlikely to step in to address usage-based pricing for wireless, said Leslie Marx, Duke University economist and former chief economist at the FCC, in a Monday blog (http://xrl.us/bnpgey). “At this stage, the FCC has enabled the competitive…
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marketplace to determine prices, the market is working, and I don’t foresee the FCC taking actions in this area to begin regulating consumer prices,” Marx wrote. “Unless more can be done to get more spectrum into the hands of all the carriers, they will all eventually have to manage network capacity through data caps and data sharing plans. With this in mind, it is critical that policymakers and lawmakers work with industry to move forward with spectrum incentive auctions and begin to more clearly define how spectrum sharing would work. Of more immediate impact, the FCC can continue to facilitate secondary market transactions to free up more spectrum for commercial wireless broadband services."