Verizon Wrong on Potential Threat From Title II Reclassification, Free Press Says
Free Press contradicted Verizon's arguments last week that the biggest investments in wireless infrastructure came after the FCC classified mobile broadband under Communications Act Title I. The carrier's filing doesn’t account for inflation in the data, Free Press said in…
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a filing in docket 14-28. “This is a fatal error, as any conclusions about changes in historical spending must be drawn from data that accounts for inflation.” Free Press argued that the growth in spending fell off sharply following Title I classification. “The annual growth rate in wireless capital spending from 1998-2006 was 3-times higher than the annual growth rate from 2007-2013, the period following the Commission’s classification of mobile broadband as a Title I information service,” the group said. “Put another way, the annual growth rate in wireless investment declined by two thirds following the decision to classify mobile broadband as a Title I service and place it outside of Title II.”