The FTC and FCC: Regulatory Overlap - Podcast
Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Group Podcast
With the Federal Communications Commission's recent net neutrality regulations, the FCC has potentially entered into the Federal Trade Commission's regulatory arena in the area of antitrust regulation and consumer protection. Are the FCC's net neutrality rules an impermissible intrusion on the FTC's portfolio, or is the regulatory tension between the FTC and FCC merely an accident of overlapping jurisdiction provided by Congress in the respective statutes creating each agency?
- Hon. Joshua D. Wright, Commissioner, United States Federal Trade Commission