PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer was cited by The Wall Street Journal today in an article arguing that the Internet marketplace has so far kept “paid prioritization” of Internet traffic at bay without the heavy hand of regulators:
When regional Bell companies were forced to “unbundle” and lease their infrastructure to competitors at cost, it dampened investment in that infrastructure, Mr. Singer and Robert Litan, an economist at the Brookings Institution, argue in a report for the PPI. Not until the unbundling requirement ended early in the 2000s did cable and fiber investment take off, they say.
Read the piece in its entirety at The Wall Street Journal.