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Blair Levin, who oversaw the development of a National Broadband Plan, recently spoke at length on broadband competition. We're sharing excerpts of his remarks. Today, Blair’s third question: Given the current market, what are the appropriate government levers to intensify competition at this part of the cycle?

Blair Levin, who oversaw the development of a National Broadband Plan, recently spoke at length on broadband competition. We shared an excerpt of his remarks in What do we want broadband competition to accomplish? Today we share Blair’s second of three foundational questions:

On October 30, Blair Levin delivered a speech, Achieving Bandwidth Abundance: The Three Policy Levers for Intensifying Broadband Competition, to an Internet Society conference. This week, we're providing excerpts of the speech. Blair Levin oversaw the development of a National Broadband Plan. He is a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institute's Metropolitan Policy Program.

You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie's Round-Up (November 2-6, 2015)

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The Senate Passes CISA
Robbie's Round-Up (October 26-30, 2015)

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The FCC Makes Some Moves
Robbie's Round-Up (October 19-23, 2015)

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Who Owns the Broadband Pipes and Who Gets Service
Robbie's Round-Up (October 12-16, 2015)

Of course I was thrilled this past April when the Federal Communications Commission indicated it was leaning against approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Reading their tarot cards, the companies promptly dropped their anti-competitive proposal. This was a real public interest victory, made possible by widespread grassroots opposition and an FCC that was listening to the people. (And it followed closely on the heels of the FCC’s hard-won and vastly-improved net neutrality rules for an Open Internet.)