Telecom analyst objects to Waxman net neutrality proposal, calls for Communications Act overhaul.
The net neutrality proposal from House Commerce Committee ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is “weak," judged Steven Titch, a telecom policy analyst who’s an associate fellow at the R Street Institute and adviser to the Heartland Institute, in an op-ed…
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for the Washington Examiner. Waxman had outlined the proposal in a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler earlier this fall, provoking opposition from broadband providers (see 1410060075). The plan, which would rely on Communications Act Section 706 and Title II authority, “tries to jam new realities -- on-demand Web video, wireless Internet and changing consumer viewing habits -- into regulatory silos that are three decades old,” Titch said in the Friday piece (http://washex.am/1Dj7ZL8). “Rather than trying to redefine FCC scope through a sloppy cut-and-paste of outmoded law, Congress should revisit the Telecom Act in its entirety -- modernizing it to fit the Internet ecosystem of our time.”