Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
Feb. 10, 2017
Reports of FCC overhaul are greatly exaggerated
Every time there is a change of guard in Washington, there is inevitably an expectation that the pendulum of telecom policy will swing wildly to the other end.
Pantelis Michalopoulos
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Email: pmichalopoulos@steptoe.com
Pantelis is a partner in Steptoe's Washington office, where he is the head of the Telecom, Internet & Media Group, as well as the Regulated Industries "Supergroup."
Every time there is a change of guard in Washington, there is inevitably an expectation that the pendulum of telecom policy will swing wildly to the other end. Just as inevitably, that expectation soon proves exaggerated, and the oscillation turns out to be gentler than initially believed and advertised.
Witness the eight years of the Obama administration. Their dawn gave rise to a widespread belief that net neutrality, the idea that the internet service providers controlling the ga...
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