Executive Round Up: How to Keep Competition With a New Administration

With President Trump’s second term underway, we asked executives what advice they would give the new administration to ensure a healthy, competitive landscape within their industry. Here’s what they had to say.

Michael Powell
President/CEO
NCTA

First and foremost, the new Administration should prioritize removing regulatory and logistical barriers that are delaying broadband deployment to rural and unconnected communities. Equally important is fostering an environment where proven providers—those with track record of building networks on-time and on-budget—can thrive and expand. Finally, ensuring sufficient spectrum availability to meet the ever-growing demands of the future is critical to driving innovation and connectivity. With the right focus, we can accelerate the delivery of high-speed internet to every corner of the country, and we are eager to work with the Administration to make this vision a reality.

Gary Shapiro
CEO/Vice Chair
CTA

We have and can lead the world in innovation with products and services making life better and reversing inflation. Government can help entrepreneurs and innovators by cutting unnecessary rules, reducing incentives for litigation and returning us back to antitrust standards and laws focused on what is best for consumers rather than interfering in the marketplace to protect status quo industries. If technology must be regulated, the rules should be clear and performance- rather than design-based and they must be created so new competitors and entrepreneurs can enter the marketplace. The next administration should work with Congress and American technology leaders and stakeholders to move forward policies that support free and fair trade and promote autonomous driving, digital health, and cybersecurity. The new administration should also urge Congress to pass a national preemptive privacy law and an AI regulatory framework that is technology-neutral and risk-based.