FCC Needs Major Overhaul, Says McSlarrow

FCC NEEDS MAJOR OVERHAUL, SAYS MCSLARROW
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
In a speech to the Media Institute in Washington, National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow suggested that Congress should institute some systemic reforms at the Federal Communications Commission, saying the FCC had gotten caught up in an "elaborate Web of rules," and adding that, at the current FCC, "the trivial metastasizes into the burdensome." He said he favors an approach put forth by the Progress & Freedom Foundation in its proposal for rewriting the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That approach would turn the FCC into a more reactive agency, empowered to intervene "only if it determines that marketplace competition would not adequately protect consumers." Essentially, he said, the presumption would be against regulation, and the agency retooled more like an FTC or Justice Department, responding to abuses through adjudication.
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