--- From: Randy May <rmayat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declanat_private> Subject: FCC Reform Agenda Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:21:34 -0400 Declan--- With three new FCC commissioners expected to come aboard within a couple of weeks, I thought the Politech list might be interested in the paper I just released entitled, "A Reform Agenda for the New FCC". In the paper I suggest that in order to carry out the "pro-competitive, deregulatory" professed vision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the new commission should do the following as quickly as possible: 1. Change its strategic objective from "market facilitation" to deregulation; 2. Establish a technology-neutral deregulatory regime for broadband services; 3. Reduce excessive forced facilities-sharing requirements on telecom networks; 4. Limit the scope of the "public interest" doctrine; 5. Establish an economically efficient regime for intercarrier compensation that gets rid of most of the subsidies built in to today's access charge and reciprocal compensation regimes. This is an ambitious program and one not easily accomplished. But the Commission must achieve real movement in this direction if we are going to have communications policies approppriate for the digital age. The full paper may be found at http://www.pff.org/POP8.9ReformAgendaFCC.pdf Thanks. Randy Randolph J. May Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies The Progress & Freedom Foundation 1301 K Street, NW Suite 550 East Washington, DC 20005 Tel. 202-289-8928 Fax.202-289-6079 e-mail: rmayat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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