Communications Act reform

In a News.com op-ed, Progress & Freedom Foundation fellow Randolph May proposes one model for reform of the Telecommunications Act: Time for a Digital Age Communications Act: “Even while technology forces changes in the marketplace, the 1996 [Telecom] Act’s regulatory regime continues to act as a drag on investment in new networks and on innovation in new services. Services are classified based on technofunctional constructs that no longer make sense in a digital world in which a bit is a bit is a bit.”