Tom Wheeler
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Remember the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal?
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The Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) recent vote to begin the process of undoing an Obama-era power grab is the right solution for putting consumers—not lobbyists and lawmakers—in the innovation driver’s seat.
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Internet/Telecom
Pai’s FCC is Rebooting Broadband Facilities Competition and 5G Investment
by Scott Cleland March 19, 2017Many don’t appreciate the huge 5G private sector infrastructure buildout ahead, or the tens of billions of dollars in private investment required to advance America to a 5G world that broadly will enable mobile connectivity at gigabit speeds.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Competitive Reality of 5G Threatens Previous-FCC’s Title II Net Neutrality
by Seton Motley March 11, 2017FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gets it that 5G wireless is a gamechanger for the rationale underlying the Wheeler-FCC’s Title II Open Internet order and net neutrality policy.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Chairman Pai Shows the Mobile World Congress He’s the Un-Wheeler
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2017New Trump FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s keynote speech on “Building the 5G Economy” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today spotlighted to the communications world that the U.S. FCC is going in a very different policy direction than that of the previous FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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The Federal Communications Commission should be closed forever in 2018. But first, nigh all of what President Obama’s FCC spent the last eight years doing should be undone.
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Internet/TelecomRegulation
The FCC Now Wants To Create A TV Content Commission
by Seton Motley September 14, 2016Having a free market was fun, wasn’t it? Unfortunately, more and more – the fun’s over.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Privacy Regulation Claims: “Believe it or not!”
by Scott Cleland June 11, 2016With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!®,”so much odd and bizarre is happening at the FCC in the “name” of “privacy” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!®” oddities.