Trump’s announcement and Executive Order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the AI revolution was a welcome America First policy directive.  That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.

But an equally vital industry for our economic and national security interests is telecommunications – which is also going through warp speed technology changes.

Here too, the government needs to keep its hands off.  No subsidies. No lawsuits. Minimal regulations.

This is why the latest $34.5 billion blockbuster merger between telecom titans Charter and Cox communications should get the green light from federal regulators.

Some of the antitrust lawyers at the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department worry this marriage would give Charter-Cox too much market share allowing them to raise prices on consumers.

But companies like Cox that provide Internet and TV services over cable transmissions are soon to be outdated by the next generation of fiber, satellite, fixed wireless, and mobile broadband services. (RELATED:........

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