Any Communications Act update should kill the regime...

Any Communications Act update should kill the regime of silos pegged to service classifications, Free State Foundation President Randolph May said in a Washington Times op-ed. He outlined several principles for an update, citing the December announcement by House Commerce Committee Republican leaders to take on the task this year and the next. “These legacy service classifications are grounded in outdated techno-functional constructs, and they often favor one marketplace competitor over another without good reason,” May said (http://bit.ly/1cj8Zly). The FCC should also have to accept a competition-based standard to determine whether a market failure exists before regulating. Its orders should be more narrow than broad, he advocated. The review should be deliberative but “given the competitive changes that already have occurred in the communications marketplace -- and that continue to occur at a rapid pace -- deliberative should not be allowed to turn into never-ending,” May said.