Broadband Regulation, Layers Model Debated.

This article reports that more broadband competition may not necessarily be better, given that the likelihood of sharing the revenues among more players gives each one less incentive to invest. Panelists largely agreed that it was time for a deregulatory approach to telecom policy. Montana Public Service Commission Chairman Bob Rowe said that the merger guidelines on market concentration used in antitrust oversight "are a place to start" in defining that bright line. Commissioner Kennedy Q. Abernathy called for a "bright line" to tell state commissioners when they should regulate, rather than a "Rorschach test" they would have to interpret.