>Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act (S-2664)

Anthony Bastardi

The NJ Senate has been considering the Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act (S-2664), a bill that will let our state “break loose from the past and begin building it’s future” according to Anthony Bastardi, Chairman of the Board of New Jersey Foundation for Public Broadcasting.  This billmodernizes the telecom regulations – something that has not been changed in about a century (since the Ma Bell days).

“These rules, created decades ago before the iPhone, laptop computer or the Internet were even dreamed of, hamstring the communications marketplace and prevent competitors from operating on a level playing field. As it stands, government red tape is slowing innovation and preventing communicationsproviders from creating jobs in New Jersey.” (see Bastardi’s entire letter here:

 https://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2011/12/building_new_jerseys_future.html