Commentary A quarter century ago, on Feb. 8, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. At the signing ceremony, the president’s rhetoric was soaring: “With the stroke of a pen, our laws will catch up with our future.” Right in the 1996 Act’s preamble, Congress declared the statute’s purpose “to promote competition and reduce regulation.” Moreover, the conference report accompanying the law stated it was intended “to provide for a pro-competitive, deregulatory national policy framework.” There was much speechifying at the time contending that the 1996 Act marked the end of the “command and control” regulatory model embodied in the original Communications Act of 1934, a statute grounded in notions of policing monopolistic power enjoyed by then-dominant communications providers. Well, it didn’t work out that way. Now, twenty-five years later, it’s time—really, past time—for Congress to adopt a new legislative framework, a “Digital Age …