In one of the least surprising moves of all time, on Thursday, April 25, the FCC voted to classify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
Sure, the Commission ginned up some new national security arguments since the sky didn’t fall when the FCC removed net neutrality rules in 2018, but to update the old saying just a bit, everything that needs to be said has been said, and everybody has said it. Frequently.
But if you want to get quickly up to speed, take a look at
- The Title II and Net Neutrality sections of our Broadband Policy Guidebook
- A recent blog on competition
- Our comments on the new Order.
When you’re done with that, take a look at this kick-ass timeline of Title II classifications and all the writings, podcasts, and events TPI has ever done on the topic over the years. All the links are there, so go read those.
Unreadable preview of the timeline below:
Scott Wallsten is President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, a Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. He is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy, and his research focuses on competition, regulation, telecommunications, the economics of digitization, and technology policy. He was the economics director for the FCC's National Broadband Plan and has been a lecturer in Stanford University's public policy program, director of communications policy studies and senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a senior fellow at the AEI–Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an economist at the World Bank, and a staff economist at the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
