A new report by PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer and Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Litan, Outdated Regulations Will Make Consumers Pay More for Broadband, was covered in a story by Politico:
Tech companies, public interest advocates and now even President Barack Obama have made the push for reclassifying Internet services as a way to achieve net neutrality. A new paper out today from the Progressive Policy Institute’s Hal Singer and Robert Litan argues such reclassification will ultimately pass billions in costs to consumers. They calculate that reclass that under Title II could make ISPs subject to both federal and state fees that apply to those services — and result in $15 billion in new state and local fees annually. (They go state-by-state and apply local tax rates to average wireline and wireless bills to make their calculations.) They also estimate a $2 billion increase in federal USF fees, using a more complicated formula. The paper will be live here, at 10 a.m.: https://bit.ly/12hkNUJ
Read the article in its entirety at Politico.
