Building on What Works: An Analysis of U.S. Broadband Policy

Nuechterlein and Shelanski discusses the US' broadband policy as of 2021. The broadband industry today is more technologically dynamic and competitive than the landline telephone industry of 1996, but the two share one similarity. Much like the turn-of-the-millennium telephony market, the broad...

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Published in:Federal communications law journal 2021-02, Vol.73 (2), p.219-258
Main Authors: Nuechterlein, Jonathan E, Shelanski, Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bright line rules
Broadband
Broadband communication systems
Broadband transmission
Cost benefit analysis
Evaluation
History
Industrial cooperation
Industrywide conditions
Interconnection (Telecommunications)
Intervention
Laws, regulations and rules
Market power
Markets
Monopolies
Net neutrality
Networks
Policy making
Political aspects
Price control
Technological change
Telecommunications
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Summary:Nuechterlein and Shelanski discusses the US' broadband policy as of 2021. The broadband industry today is more technologically dynamic and competitive than the landline telephone industry of 1996, but the two share one similarity. Much like the turn-of-the-millennium telephony market, the broadband industry is in new period of technological transition. Fixed-line networks are deploying technologies that support increasingly mobile functionality, while mobile networks-first with LTE and now with 5G-are increasingly capable of cost-efficiently supporting high-bandwidth services that were once the unique province of fixed-line networks. If experience with the 1996 Act taught us nothing else, it is that policymakers must be careful neither to exaggerate the need for major intervention in such transitional markets nor to overlook the costs of doing so.
ISSN:0163-7606
2376-4457