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Author Litan, Robert E., 1950-

Title The need for speed : a new framework for telecommunications policy for the 21st century / Robert E. Litan and Hal J. Singer
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (v, 90 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies
Contents Introduction -- Twentieth-century telecommunications policy -- Toward a twenty-first century policy framework for telecommunications -- Specific policy reforms -- The enormous benefits of a broadband world
Summary The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. The authors argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies and rules are inhibiting investment in the telecom industry, specifically in fast broadband networks. This pithy handbook presents the kind of fundamental rethinking needed to bring communications policy in line with technological advances. Fast broadband has societal benefits, enabling all kinds of applications in telemedicine, entertainment, retailing, education, and energy that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Those benefits would be even greater if the FCC adopted policies that encouraged more broadband providers, especially wireless providers, to make their services available more broadly - particularly in areas where consumers currently have no choice in wireline providers offering download speeds that satisfy the FCC's standards. The authors' recommendations include allowing broadband providers to charge for premium delivery services; embracing a rule-of-reason approach to all matters involving vertical arrangements; stripping the FCC of its merger review authority because both the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department have the authority to stop anticompetitive mergers; eliminating the FCC's ability to condition spectrum purchases on the identity, business plans, or spectrum holdings of a bidder; and freeing telephone companies from outdated regulations that require them to maintain both a legacy copper network and a modem IP network
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-82) and index
Notes English
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Subject Telecommunication policy -- United States
Telecommunication -- United States -- History -- 21st century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Communication Policy.
Telecommunication
Telecommunication policy
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Singer, Hal J.
LC no. 2013000660
ISBN 9780815724445
0815724446