By Nate Anderson
Two FCC commissioners showed up to a Senate hearing yesterday and argued that the US is in dire need of a "national broadband strategy" that would bring universal access and more competition to the increasingly-important broadband market.
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Despite the assurances of a Progress & Freedom Foundation senior fellow that US broadband was a robustly competitive market and companies should actually face fewer government regulations, neither Commissioner Copps nor Commissioner Adelstein (both Democrats, and the only two commissioners who spoke at the hearing) agreed that things were so simple. The reason: regulation of the broadband market is currently at a low ebb compared with earlier rules that required line-sharing, yet the US continues to fall behind its international competitors.
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