Thursday, November 13, 2003
More on Hundt/FCC/VoIP story
Now I have three letters -- from Baratunde Thurston, Kevin Werbach and Tom Power -- all of which seek to educate me on FCC procedures and correct my misconceptions.
When I get letters that point out that I might be wrong, I'm quite capable of changing my mind, unlike the FCC in the matter of media ownership caps.
Given the FCC's media ownership caps snafu, my level of FCC distrust has risen from:
YELLOW -- TRYING TO BALANCE "RIGHT THING" AGAINST OVERWHELMING PRESSURE FROM INCUMBENTS
to:
ORANGE -- IN POCKET OF INCUMBENTS UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE
By the way, one quote from the Tom Power letter:
When I get letters that point out that I might be wrong, I'm quite capable of changing my mind, unlike the FCC in the matter of media ownership caps.
Given the FCC's media ownership caps snafu, my level of FCC distrust has risen from:
YELLOW -- TRYING TO BALANCE "RIGHT THING" AGAINST OVERWHELMING PRESSURE FROM INCUMBENTS
to:
ORANGE -- IN POCKET OF INCUMBENTS UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE
By the way, one quote from the Tom Power letter:
Of course, Reed may be right. Perhaps the fix IS in. But I can assure you that Reed Hundt never issued an NPRM without having first determined what the final rules should look like. It's the only way to be an effective FCC chairman. Eventually you may have to compromise a bit and make some tweaks based on the public comments, but the rule that applies to trial lawyers applies equally to FCC chairmen: don't ask questions that you don't know the answers to.
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