Like President Calvin Coolidge, the next chairman...
Like President Calvin Coolidge, the next chairman of the FCC should “more highly value restraint over regulatory action,” former Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate said in a Free State Foundation piece Tuesday (http://bit.ly/ZVfswC). Tate said the commission should “return to a…
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time when individual commissioners could bring an item before the body for a vote in order to eliminate outdated or unnecessary regulations or rules more efficiently.” She applauded Commissioner Ajit Pai for proposing internal shot clocks and a “dashboard” to give the agency more transparency (CD Feb 22 p6). The FCC should show regulatory restraint in the still-pending Title II proceeding, the addition of extraneous “voluntary conditions” to mergers, and the imposition of overly restrictive rules for spectrum auctions, Tate said. The Title II proceeding looked at reclassifying broadband as a Title II common carrier service, which could subject it to more FCC regulations. “The FCC should be doing everything possible to enable innovation, entrepreneurship, investment, and job creation by removing unnecessary regulatory barriers and refraining from instituting new obstructions to this impressive progress,” she said. “The FCC should remember that every action -- every regulation -- has a cost, which is usually passed on to the consumer."