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The American Consumer Institute Outlines Ten Issues That the FCC Must Address in Its Net Neutrality Rulemaking Proceeding

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 13:04 CDT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Consumer Institute today released a letter from Senior Fellow Dr. Larry F. Darby to Ms. Sharon Gillett, Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau, that set forth issues germane to the Commission's impending Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Matter of Net Neutrality.

The letter was submitted in the context of an announcement by FCC Chairman Genachowski on Sept. 21, 2009 of his intention to expand the Commission's Net Neutrality principles and to convert them to enforceable rules.

Steve Pociask, president and founder of The American Consumer Institute, noted, "We hope the Commission accepts these comments in the spirit in which they were offered. We join the Commission in its pursuit of fair, transparent, fact-based, data-driven, consumer-centric analysis of these important issues."

Heading the issues was the need for clarity in expressing goals of the proceeding and the need to explore the impact of the proposed rules on saving and creating jobs while stimulating the macroeconomy.

Other suggestions included the need to balance perceived market failures with potential costs of government action; the need to weigh concerns over net neutrality in the context of traditional regulatory goals of universal service, fair rates, high levels of network investment and innovation; and to comport the rules with the requirements of the emerging national broadband policy and strategy.

The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational and research institute. For more information visit www.theamericanconsumer.org.

SOURCE American Consumer Institute

Source: PR Newswire

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