Small businesses suffered from FCC decisions that lacked proper R...
Small businesses suffered from FCC decisions that lacked proper Regulatory Flexibility Act analyses, said Teletruth and the New Networks Institute. In comments filed Monday at the commission, they asked it to open a rulemaking to revamp the FCC’s “methodology,…
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process, data collection and analysis” regarding the act. The commission hurt telecom, broadband, Internet, wireless and media competition by not taking the act’s obligations “seriously” for more than a decade, the groups said. “It has cost America trillions of dollars in potential economic growth, harmed innovation and slowed America’s technological edge, not to mention closing down thousands of competitors. It also resulted in higher prices, slower broadband speeds, and a lack of choice for customers.” The groups cited several decisions they said violated the law, including a 2004 order on incumbent unbundling rules and a 2005 order that dropped a requirement that incumbents share wireline broadband Internet services. The groups also urged the FCC to open a rulemaking to investigate fraudulent small-entity discounts in wireless- spectrum auctions.