Christian Dippon
Quantifying the Opportunity of Reforming the Federal Communications Commission’s National Environmental Policy Act and National Historical Preservation Act Rules
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider the reasonably foreseeable environmental impacts of “major federal actions.” The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) incorporated NEPA into its decision-making process by establishing procedures for reviewing such actions, which can include the deployment and modification of communications infrastructure, including towers and other macrocell locations, and small cell sites. With recent statutory and other changes applicable to NEPA, the FCC is considering revising its policies.
International price comparisons: An area of further research
The keen interest by politicians, regulators, and competition authorities in international price rankings has sparked a series of management consultancies to produce regularly studies that purport to compare and rank prices for mobile wireless services across the world. These rankings, so they claim, are the Swiss Army knife of competition analysis. A country that ranks lower on a list is declared a laggard or noncompetitive and thus supposedly is in need of regulatory intervention. Such claims require scrutiny and further analysis.