Latta Reintroduces Resolution Laying Out Limited-Government Telecom Vision
Keep the government away from telecom, said House Communications Subcommittee Vice Chairman Bob Latta, R-Ohio, in a resolution he introduced Friday. H.Res-113 aims to express “the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to continue aggressive growth in…
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the Nation's telecommunications and technology industries, the United States Government should ‘Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way,’” its title said. The resolution itself is under 350 words and resolves that the government should promote “investment through deregulation and free-market competition”; help make “additional spectrum available for commercial usage through unencumbered auctions, reallocation of Federal spectrum, and efficient spectrum sharing”; create a federal plan to transmit “high-quality, real-time voice, data, graphics, and video at increasingly higher speeds” to all people, “especially in rural and underserved areas”; make sure privacy is protected “without compromising marketplace efficiencies”; and help facilitate information sharing about cyberthreats. The resolution text emphasized the 96 million wireline broadband connections in the U.S. as well as the importance of wireless auctions in ensuring more than 197 million wireless broadband connections. It mentions the public-private partnerships that Connected Nation has sought to facilitate. The resolution says “deregulatory policies and free-market competition consistently yield a higher rate of economic growth, a greater standard of living for all Americans, and an enhanced capacity for the United States to be competitive in the global marketplace.” The resolution has no co-sponsors and was referred to the Commerce Committee. Latta has introduced the resolution before and it “represents his broad, strategic vision for the telecommunications industry,” Latta’s spokeswoman told us.