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Radio News: Third net neutrality critic added to Trump FCC team

Nov 29, 2016 10:53 pm
The Hill reports that another net neutrality critic has been added to the Federal Communications Commission landing team for the president-elect, with Roslyn Layton joining Jeffrey Eisenach and Mark Jamison. All three work for the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. All three are against the net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers to treat all web traffic the same. “The FCC's recent actions and the White House's intervention is inconsistent with a stable, evidence-based regulatory approach,” Layton wrote about net neutrality in a 2015 op-ed co-written with Jamison. “The situation distracts the FCC from its mission-critical responsibilities, such as the upcoming incentive auction to get more spectrum in the marketplace and meet consumers’ increasing demand for wireless technologies.” Earlier this month, Layton wrote a Tech Policy Daily op-ed urging the Trump administration to promote international broadband and take on Chinese apps. “As my forthcoming research on the mobile app economy shows, the Chinese succeed in making significant mobile app innovation without having explicit open internet rules,” Layton wrote. “This contradicts the regulatory dogma and suggests that policymakers should rethink their assumptions about how internet innovation works.”
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