Comcast, Verizon, AT&T tell White House: FCC is mucking up Obama's vision

Broadband for America, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, NCTA, USTelecom, Time Warner Cable, and CTIA sent a letter to the White House saying the Federal Communications Commission is failing to comply with President Obama's directive to slash unnecessary regulations.

The agency failed to propose reforms or repeal rules during its own regulatory review, the companies said. The companies offered ideas on how the FCC can streamline regulations to better promote broadband deployment: rely more heavily on the market, resist predictive judgments about technology trends, avoid making its data fit predetermined outcomes, embrace the limits of its authority and accelerate its decision-making speed.