Privacy Issues Could Reverse Current ISP Deregulatory Trend, CCG Says
NCTA's argument that edge providers are a bigger threat to internet openness and consumer privacy than ISPs and that the solution is market forces and FTC case-by-case enforcement (see 1808210026) was "inevitable" now that ISPs "are trying to take full…
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advantage of the FCC walking away from broadband regulation," CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson blogged Friday. He said telecom regulation traditionally comes in cycles that can end up in either excessive regulation or excess laxness: "We are certainly hitting the bottom of a trough of a regulatory wave as regulations are being eliminated or ignored." He said customer privacy is likely the issue that reverses the deregulation trend, and called the idea that market forces will govern ISP behavior "pretty laughable." NCTA didn't comment.