FCC Commissioner Pai Calls for Creation of IP Transition Task - NTCA

Speaking October 16 at a Washington, D.C., ?forum sponsored by the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai called upon the commission to set up a task force to examine the issue of how to best make the transition from a voice to an IP world.

?This task force would study how to hasten the Internet transformation,? Pai said. ?It would help us modernize the Commission?s outdated regulations and it would allow us to account for and accelerate the dramatic technological changes in the communications industry.?

Along those lines, Pai suggested the commission could close the 2010 docket which would reclassify broadband Internet access services as common carrier services regulated under Title II. ?We should make clear that we have no intention of employing such a back-to-the-future regulatory approach,? he said.

Further, Pai attacked the 1996 Telecommunications Act, calling it ?hopelessly outdated.? ?However, until and unless Congress decides to change the law, he said, it is the FCC?s job is ?to administer the act as it stands.?

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Source: http://www.ntca.org/new-edge/current-issue/fcc-commissioner-pai-calls-for-creation-of-ip-transition-task-force

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