Wyoming WISP Warns on Dangers of Title II Regulation
Brett Glass, owner of Wyoming wireless ISP Lariat, warned FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez that reregulating broadband under Title II of the Communications Act will be negative for small WISPs. “I recounted the difficulties that our company had encountered during the…
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Commission’s previous attempt to regulate ISPs under Title II, which all but put us out of business by depriving us of investment, as well as the serious impacts that increased regulatory burdens … had already had upon our small, local business,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-320. If the FCC moves ahead with revised rules, it should “take into account the limited resources of small and local ISPs and very real danger of driving them out of business via excessive regulation and micromanagement, leaving consumers with fewer choices and no local ones with high quality, personalized service and technical support,” Glass said.