Regulation Rollback Rolls On

摘要

IF ANYTHING IS CLEAR in the wake of the most recent, arguably unprecedented presidential contest, it is that elections have consequences. One of the major ones for broad-band providers is that Ajit Pai, a de-regulatory Republican Federal Communications Commission chair who is strongly against the reclassification of internet access under his Democratic predecessor, has reversed that deci-sion and deregulated internet access service. He was joined in the vote by the GOP FCC majority that is also a consequence of a Republican in the White House - specifically, the current one.