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Democracy & Technology Blog Quick Action

Bret Swanson
August 5, 2005
Broadband

Somehow FCC chairman Kevin Martin got a unanimous 4-0 vote to reclassify DSL as an “information service,” largely freeing it from legacy telephone regulation. After the recent Supreme Court Brand X ruling, Martin said deregulatory moves would be forthcoming, but this is quick action.
The FCC also issued a policy statement on “net neutrality,” however, that could open up vast new realms of regulation and must be closely watched.
Two steps forward, one step…we’ll see.
-Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson is a Senior Fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, where he researches technology and economics and contributes to the Disco-Tech blog. He is currently writing a book on the abundance of the world economy, focusing on the Chinese boom and developing a new concept linking economics and information theory. Swanson writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy.