Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has described his overarching agenda for federal telecommunications policy as “competition, competition, competition.” Late last month, the FCC delivered a one-two punch that will advance this agenda in the realm that matters most to American businesses and consumers — broadband Internet access service.
In back-to-back party-line votes, the FCC passed two items that are designed to, and will, catalyze further broadband competition in the United States. The first item — and by far the lesser known of the two — was a vote to pre-empt state laws in North Carolina and Tennessee that limit the ability of municipal entities to deploy broadband networks that could compete against those provided by incumbent cable or telephone companies. The second item — and the one that has drawn an extraordinary amount of attention — is the adoption of new open Internet or “net neutrality” rules.
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