Comments of ICLE & TechFreedom, Response to Fourth Communications Act Update White Paper: “Network Interconnection”, House Energy and Commerce Committee

Geoffrey A. Manne, Berin Szoka, Tom Struble, & Ben Sperry January 1, 2014

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Summary

“The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been outdated since the moment it was signed into law, and we applaud the Committee for taking up the task of bringing it up to date. The Act’s siloed approach reflects the assumptions of the pre-Internet era, and is completely out of sync with the market it now governs. The sooner it is replaced with a technologically neutral act focused on how regulated conduct affects consumer welfare, the better, as we argued in our earlier comments in this ongoing inquiry…”