AT&T and Verizon will have to make the...
AT&T and Verizon will have to make the case for deregulation as the IP transition unfolds, said Stifel Nicolaus analysts Christopher King and David Kaut in a research note Wednesday. That’s their takeaway after reading new FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s…
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blog entry his first full day on the job (CD Nov 6 p1). Wheeler’s insistence on upholding a social contract between telecom networks and users “will provide some reassurance to smaller telco competitors” and “liberal public-interest advocates” as AT&T and Verizon seek deregulation, the analysts said. Bell critics will be comforted by Wheeler’s assertion that a change in technology “does not change the rights of users or the responsibilities of networks,” King and Kaut said. “We don’t believe AT&T and Verizon will object to the concept of continued rights and obligations, but will argue that legacy phone regulation should not be imported to IP systems unless demonstrably justified."