{"id":546277,"date":"2010-04-28T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011728061_reclassifyingbroadband.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:50:32","slug":"reclassifying-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546277","title":{"rendered":"Reclassifying broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Largent: No reason to reverse existing regulatory model<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The op-ed on April 28 [\u201cReclassify broadband to keep the Internet a democratic medium,\u201d Opinion] completely ignored the facts of today\u2019s wireless industry.<\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, there are no reasons why the Federal Communications Commission should consider reversing the light regulatory model started by the Clinton administration and continued by President Obama. The classification of broadband as an \u201cinformation service\u201d and not in the same category as the plain monopolistic telephone industry was a good and sensible policy.<\/p>\n<p>I have repeatedly asked: What is the problem that we need to address with potentially dangerous regulation? This light touch has been \u2014and continues to be \u2014a tremendous success. It has resulted in the United States leading the world in wireless technology. Americans are using their devices more and paying less than almost anyone else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have more third-generation (3G) subscribers than any other nation.<\/li>\n<li>All of the state-of-the-art handsets are launched first in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Consumers could choose from almost 250,000 apps, up from fewer than a 100 a few years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The U.S. wireless industry has invested more money last year in its networks than Germany, France the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain combined.<\/p>\n<p>As Former President Bill Clinton\u2019s FCC Chairman William Kennard said in a 2006 op-ed, \u201cPolicymakers should rise above the Net-neutrality debate and focus on what America truly requires from the Internet: getting affordable broadband access to those who need it.\u201d CTIA and the wireless industry could not agree more.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Steve Largent, president and CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Largent: No reason to reverse existing regulatory model The op-ed on April 28 [\u201cReclassify broadband to keep the Internet a democratic medium,\u201d Opinion] completely ignored the facts of today\u2019s wireless industry. Quite simply, there are no reasons why the Federal Communications Commission should consider reversing the light regulatory model started by the Clinton administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}