Avoid applying needless regulation in any Communications Act...
Avoid applying needless regulation in any Communications Act update, three Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee wrote in a joint op-ed for The Hill (http://bit.ly/1lB613u). House Republicans announced their intent to overhaul the landmark Telecom Act of 1996 in…
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December, with action planned for 2014 and 2015. “Unfortunately, some would still have people believe that the only way to provide real consumer choice is to have the federal government dictating how consumers are offered services and what those services might be,” said Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. “This approach is born from the mindset that regulations beget innovation and that bureaucrats in the government, not entrepreneurship, create competition.” They decried “knee-jerk regulatory prescription” and instead suggested empowering consumers through the promotion of competition. They said they welcome a rewrite of the act and emphasized the technology changes that have happened since 1996.