Title II Would Not Solve Problems But Create Them, Georgetown's Kovacs to Say in Paper
A Communications Act Title II net neutrality approach would “not solve the paid-priority issue, but does create the risk of enormous collateral damage to both infrastructure and edge providers,” wrote Anna-Maria Kovacs, visiting senior policy scholar at Georgetown University’s Center…
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for Business and Public Policy, in a paper the center plans to release Thursday. Reclassification would “cause repeated shocks in an industry that greatly needs continued investment to keep up with exploding demand for mobile broadband services,” Kovacs wrote. Discouraging investment “would be particularly harmful at this time, given the need for increased capital investments and spectrum purchases,” the paper said. Reclassification would also “choke the Internet ecosystem,” which has been an engine for economic growth in the U.S., Kovacs wrote, and it would encourage other governments to follow suit, “endangering the success of American digital service- and application-providers abroad.”