CompTel/ALTS, the leading US industry association representing competitive communications providers, has released an addendum to the ECTA/Jones Day/SPC Network European Regulatory Scorecard that shows the United States is lagging behind European countries when it comes to implementing policies necessary for sustainable competition in the communications sector.
The U.S. Annex is a new addition to the ECTA /Jones Day/SPC Network Regulatory Scorecard. The previous two versions of the Regulatory Scorecard have provided a comparison among the telecommunications regulatory authorities solely within in the European Union, addressing regulatory effectiveness, transparency, and access to competitive markets. The increasing volume of questions raised by European competitive carriers regarding the handling of these matters in the U.S. has resulted in the development of the present addendum to the 2005 Regulatory Scorecard.
The purpose of the scorecard is to measure, as objectively as possible, the effectiveness of the national regulatory environment, specifically as it affects the promotion of sustainable and effective competition in the provision of telecommunications networks and services. Despite the differences in regulatory approaches between the U.S. and the Member States of the European Union, this annex provides a valuable insight into the effectiveness of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the openness of U.S. telecommunications markets.
