The FCC needs to establish an all-IP pilot...
The FCC needs to establish an all-IP pilot program to let the carriers turn off the Public Switched Telephone Network and make the transition to all-IP in a discrete set of wire centers, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai told the Communications…
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and Technology Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council conference Friday (http://bit.ly/1jvjshH). Pai said states should cooperate with the FCC and carriers that elect to participate in the trials. States should be proactive in reducing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment, said Pai, using Google Fiber in Kansas City as an example. One of the reasons Google chose Kansas City was because the city committed to review all permits within five days and to let Google use an “approved third-party inspection firm” to assist the city in completing necessary inspections, he said. States should “make it easier” to use the Internet for over-the-top business models, said Pai. Mobile apps, such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, provide “innovation and competition” that’s good for consumers and proves the value of mobile broadband, he said. But cities such as Los Angeles and Washington have made these “upstarts jump through many regulatory hoops,” and consumers and companies pay the price. “With the threat of new regulation in every city and county across the country, over-the-top companies are likely to shun smaller markets and slow their expansion into new territories,” said Pai. “So one step to improve this situation might be to secure at the state level the right to innovate for all over-the-top providers."