I can envision a bright broadband future, driven by consumer choice and innovative companies, where I can access my content from any platform in any place. Then I see a dark spot -- policymakers struggling to regulate technologies that change with each legislative session.
If that’s your nightmare too, there’s a new report by the Joint Economic Committee you’ll want to read: Enabling the Future: Communications Law Should Anticipate Future Trends, Avoid Stalemates Over Issues that Will Soon Become Moot. The author believes in the power and potential of broadband Internet access to improve the public good -– like the telegraph and railroad -- but, he concludes, “resistance will arise from vested interests that benefit from existing government licenses and subsidies, which now have more productive uses. Congress must distinguish between the interest of these groups and that of the broader public that these groups often claim to represent.â€
It discusses how broadband Internet is becoming a mobile, wireless, broadcast utility and how it needs to be unregulated so that market forces can shape and grow the industry. It calls for Congress to stop trying to regulate the present and exercise some vision when it comes to the information economy. If you’re at all interested in television spectrum issues, take a look.
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