Tech Policy Expert: Trump Administration Should Delete FCC

Rather than focusing on deleting certain regulations, the Trump administration should consider shuttering the FCC, wrote Thomas Lenard, a senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. “The White House is closing and shrinking other agencies, and it should consider doing the same to the FCC -- as the administration has a responsibility to evaluate whether the agency has outlived its raison d’etre,” Lenard said this week in The Wall Street Journal.

Congress established the commission “to regulate monopoly telecommunications services and later directed it to promote competition in those services,” Lenard said: “Today, with voice and data communications provided by many competing technologies, the industry is one of the economy’s most competitive and dynamic.”