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The FCC should find in its next wireless competition report that the U.S. wireless market is effectively competitive, the Free State Foundation said in reply comments to a May 17 Wireless Bureau public notice. Under former Chairman Julius Genachowski, the FCC refused to reach that conclusion for three reports in a row (CD June 19 p12). “The forthcoming Seventeenth Wireless Competition Report offers an opportunity for a course correction,” FSF said (http://bit.ly/11UZe9R). “The Commission should bring itself in line with the statute and with available data which demonstrates the dynamism and competitiveness of today’s wireless marketplace.” In the last three reports, the commission “ducked” a “statutory obligation” for the agency to determine whether or not the industry is effectively competitive, FSF said. The group also said: “The time for the agency to remove its blinders with regard to fully considering and accounting for the impact of intermodal competition is long past."