Proposals to increase regulation of mobile wireless services, for example, by applying “net neutrality” regulation, are often based on claims that such regulation would enhance innovation and increase consumer choice. In fact, they would have the opposite effect. The business practices that...

Calls for a 'public Internet' as a way to implement common carriage and 'net neutrality' are likely to be expensive and add little to consumer welfare. Moreover, they risk building a wireline system that is later abandoned in favor of wireless access to broadband

Dear Chairman Wheeler: Congratulations on your confirmation as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As economists who study and write about communications policy and regulation, we agree with your comment during your confirmation hearing that “the role of the FCC has evolved from...