STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER DEBORAH TAYLOR TATE
Re:  Appropriate Regulatory Treatment for Broadband Access to the Internet 
Over Wireless Networks
Today, we continue down the path of deregulation as we move forward to ensure
that the benefits of the new Digital Age accrue to all Americans.  Specifically, we 
eliminate some of the regulatory requirements and uncertainties regarding wireless 
broadband services by classifying it as an “information service.”  The broadband Internet 
access market today is characterized by multiple platforms that are vigorously competing 
for customers. In prior proceedings, the Commission has classified cable, wireline, and 
BPL-enabled Internet access as information services.  I am pleased that we do so in a 
technology-neutral manner that provides wireless broadband Internet access services a 
level playing field with other Internet access services.