4 Minutes on What’s Wrong with the FCC National Broadband Plan

by on March 16, 2010 · 5 comments

Here’s a brief audio clip that PFF’s new press director Mike Wendy helped me put together in which I outline some of my reservations with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) just-released National Broadband Plan. It’s just 4 minutes. Just click the play button below.

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Adam Thierer / Adam is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He previously served as President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Director of Telecom. Studies at the Cato Institute, and Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

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  • Brett Glass

    Adam, you've hit upon a point that makes small ISPs like me particularly uncomfortable. It's central planning — which seldom leaves room for or gives a voice to the “little guy” or the innovator. The government does need to fix broken markets (especially ones that it's responsible for breaking) and prevent anticompetitive behavior — and, yes, that may mean some regulation of prices if monopolists are gouging. But beyond those things it should regulate as little as possible.

  • Brett Glass

    Adam, you've hit upon a point that makes small ISPs like me particularly uncomfortable. It's central planning — which seldom leaves room for or gives a voice to the “little guy” or the innovator. The government does need to fix broken markets (especially ones that it's responsible for breaking) and prevent anticompetitive behavior — and, yes, that may mean some regulation of prices if monopolists are gouging. But beyond those things it should regulate as little as possible.

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