TPI Offers 10 Policy Recommendations to Help Trump Boost Tech, Telecom Innovation

The Technology Policy Institute issued 10 recommendations it says can help the Trump administration better promote innovation and economic growth. In the 18-page policy paper, TPI President Scott Wallsten and President Emeritus Thomas Lenard said the incoming administration should roll back the FCC net neutrality and broadband reclassification order because they largely deal with hypothetical concerns rather than fix current problems and should use antitrust enforcement to address competition issues. Trump's team has signaled a distaste for those regulations and will likely push to have the order repealed (see 1611230014). The Thursday paper said processes to put spectrum into the hands of the private sector should be streamlined and business models such as those "based on price and non-price differentiation without requiring regulatory approval" should be allowed. Wallsten and Lenard seek more incentives to improve cybersecurity and ensuring strong intellectual property rights policies.