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Minimizing regulation will speed advance of broadband and advance...

Minimizing regulation will speed advance of broadband and advanced mobile services, panelists said Wednesday at an Institute for Policy Innovation seminar. Rather than looking for ways to fill public coffers, policymakers should encourage companies to move into unserved areas,…

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said IPI senior fellow Barry Aarons. Tax credits and other incentives are a better way to encourage broadband, Aarons said. The wireless market is growing faster than that for fixed landline services due to fewer controls, panelist Massimiliano Trovato, a fellow with Italy’s Instituto Bruno Leoni, said. But there is a trend toward placing conditions on spectrum auctions worldwide, Trovato said.