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More forbearance please.

Publication: Regulation
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: More forbearance please.(BRIEFLY NOTED)

Article Excerpt
Imagine a world in which Congress's ham-fisted attempts at regulation were never implemented and agencies actively reviewed their rules to remove those that no longer make sense. If that sounds like a regulatory paradise, think again: it's the Federal Communications Commission. Or, more precisely, it is what the FCC is supposed to be.

Anyone who has had dealings with the FEE knows that misguided regulations are both plentiful and very much enforced, so skepticism is to be forgiven. Still, the 1996 Telecommunications Act makes it effectively illegal to enforce "bad" regulations by giving the FCC a unique and powerful deregulatory tool: forbearance.

As the communications bill neared completion, a number of congressmen became concerned that it did little or nothing to prune the regulatory thicket that had grown around the telecom industry. But so much regulation in this area is arcane,...

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