Four Principles for Communications Policy

Four principles have guided much of the United States’ approach to communications policy and have helped to enable the vibrant and prosperous digital ecosystem we benefit from today

• Principle 1: Successful digital markets depend upon sustained investment into resilient, adaptable, secure, and trusted communications infrastructure;
• Principle 2: Robust competition is essential to continuous innovation and consumer choice;
• Principle 3: Innovation flourishes when regulation remains flexible and can adapt alongside technological change; and
• Principle 4: International cooperation is strongest when it advances our shared interests while respecting each nation’s sovereignty, laws, and institutions.

Our responsibility is to create the conditions in which innovation can flourish, investment can grow, competition can thrive, and citizens can benefit from the extraordinary opportunities that communications technologies make possible.