Regulatory Landscape Needs Re-evaluation

Nine years ago, Congress enacted the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a law fashioned for the analogue era of voice-based telephone service. Since that time, we have witnessed a communications revolution that has rivaled the Industrial Revolution for how it has transformed the way we do business. In 1996, electronic communication was mostly about analogue circuit-switched telephone service. Today, it is all about the Internet. It is now time to re-evaluate a regulatory landscape, which is based on a nearly decade-old law which mentions the Internet only in passing.