Mobile Broadband a Substitute for Wired Connection, FSF Says
The FCC was wrong in its net neutrality order and wireless competition report, and in other orders, to refuse to say mobile broadband is a substitute for wireline broadband, Free State Foundation President Randolph May said Thursday in a blog…
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post. “The fact that 13 percent of Americans in 2015 were ‘smartphone-only,’ which is more than a 60 percent increase in two years, shows that a growing number of consumers perceive mobile and fixed broadband to be substitutable services,” May wrote. “The increasing substitutability of mobile and fixed broadband services is making an already competitive broadband market even more competitive. The Commission should not ignore the actual realities of the marketplace and clear patterns of consumer behavior in order to pursue a pro-regulatory agenda.”