Prescriptive Rules Would Hurt Growth of IoT, FSF Says

Making more spectrum available for 5G, not prescriptive regulations, will help IoT growth, Seth Cooper, Free State Foundation senior fellow, blogged Friday. “Given the potentially dizzying diversity of network infrastructure, smart devices, and applications, the IoT is not conducive to one-size-fits-all prescriptive regulation,” Cooper wrote. “A hands-off approach toward nascent IoT technologies and services should be maintained. ... Sophisticated enterprise customers can bargain at arm’s length with IoT service providers for data privacy and other protections.”