AEI Fellow Sees Toll-Free Number Auction as Potentially Significant

The FCC’s auction of more than 17,000 numbers in the recently opened 833 toll-free code is potentially significant, American Enterprise Institute's Daniel Lyons blogged Thursday. "Like the higher-profile spectrum auctions that the agency has launched over the past two-plus decades, the toll-free auction represents an effort to root out the vestigial inefficiencies in an outdated command-and-control regulatory system.” Commissioners approved the agency's first-of-its-kind auction in August (see 1908010011).