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The FCC should remember the “problems of undue...

The FCC should remember the “problems of undue regulation” when it takes on net neutrality, NCTA CEO Michael Powell wrote in an op-ed in The Hill Thursday (http://bit.ly/10msw3k). Based on “history and experience,” Powell wrote, “competition goals will be thwarted…

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if the commission buckles to those who are baying to blanket the Internet industry with the dirty quilt of common carrier regulation.” Powell referred to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Sept. 7 speech on the need for more broadband competition (CD Sept 5 p1). “Can anyone honestly argue that new heavy regulation will attract new broadband competitors and bring more choices to consumers?” Powell wrote. “Or rather, will it only entrench the power of incumbents and frustrate innovators and entrepreneurs? Will it help broadband build out into rural areas or rather impede it?"