FCC regulations aren’t as bad as the Internet...
FCC regulations aren’t as bad as the Internet Innovation Alliance-sponsored paper published last week makes them out to be, said telecom lawyer Jonathan Lee in a blog post Friday (http://bit.ly/1cEWSBM). The paper, by Georgetown visiting senior policy scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs,…
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criticized the FCC for requiring ILECs to spend money maintaining legacy networks, rather than letting the telcos invest their money in new technologies (http://bit.ly/1fjIdgz). But, according to Lee, “the IIA knows full well that maintenance of this ‘museum network’ is critical to our country’s economic recovery.” Investment in the legacy networks amounted to more than $13.5 billion dollars a year, Lee said. “The IIA report dramatically shows what every FCC commenter has ever said in support of their comments: and that is that if FCC adopts the regulatory (vs. de-regulatory) policies advocated, then these policies will promote investment above and beyond the level necessary to deliver the regulated service,” he said.