Wireline

摘要

FCC regulations aren’t as bad as the Internet Innovation Alliance-sponsored paper publishedrnlast week makes them out to be, said telecom lawyer Jonathan Lee in a blog post Fridayrn(http://bit.ly/1cEWSBM). The paper, by Georgetown visiting senior policy scholar Anna-MariarnKovacs, criticized the FCC for requiring ILECs to spend money maintaining legacy networks,rnrather than letting the telcos invest their money in new technologies (http://bit.ly/1fjIdgz). But,rnaccording to Lee, “the IIA knows full well that maintenance of this ‘museum network’ is criticalrnto our country’s economic recovery.” Investment in the legacy networks amounted to more thanrn$13.5 billion dollars a year, Lee said. “The IIA report dramatically shows what every FCC commenterrnhas ever said in support of their comments: and that is that if FCC adopts the regulatoryrn(vs. de-regulatory) policies advocated, then these policies will promote investment above and beyondrnthe level necessary to deliver the regulated service,” he said.