Are Public Utility-Style Regulations of Broadband in the Public's Interest?
Are Public Utility-Style Regulations of Broadband in the Public's Interest?
American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research
Thursday, January 14, 2016
12:00 to 1:30 PM
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was to provide a "deregulatory framework" for increasing competition and to "accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans." Yet, in the two decades following passage of the Act, the promise of deregulation has been replaced by re-regulation and the imposition of 1930s public utility-style regulations on Internet Service Providers. An expert group of panelists will discuss what this regulation will mean for investment, competition and consumer welfare.
Introduction:
- Hance Haney, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
- Steve Pociask, President, American Consumer Institute, remarks on a new ACI Study – "Concentration by Regulation"
Panel Discussion:
- Joseph P. Fuhr, Jr., Economics Professor, Widener University and Senior Fellow at ACI (moderating).
- Fred Campbell, Executive Director, Center for Boundless Innovation in Technology
- Christian Dippon, Senior Vice President, Co-Chair for the Communications, Media & Internet Practice, NERA
- Randolph May, President, The Free State Foundation
Lunch to be Served