FCC net neutrality rules and efficiency

The US Federal Communications Commission, seeing the internet as a fragile ecosystem pursuant to this agreement threat from opportunistic internet service providers, issued its "network neutrality" order on December 23. By January 10 it had received its first complaint - against an upstart wireless competitor providing innovative services, advanced technologies and new options for low-income consumers.

The targeting of socially valuable entrepreneurship is not an accident. The regulatory effort - "preserving the open internet" - as the FCC labels its regime, mistakes the benefits of market competition for designs of market planners.