Hmmm, regarding Spectrum sales, wonder if the FTC should get involved and investigate the FCC's allotments? Then that might mean the consumer gets even fewer choices than now... Why does this seem like a Kobyashi Maru scenario?
Ahem, FCC, who do you think you are? The FTC?
A US Congressional hearing this week will ask two heads of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) some pointed questions about its recent spate of decisions, in particular auction rule changes and why it thinks it's the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will talk with FCC …
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Monday 27th July 2015 21:55 GMT Keven E.
....and in this corner...
"... the FCC decided it was going to become a consumer complaints organization for the internet despite having absolutely no experience of doing so."
Aside from being the "consumer complaints organization" for every conservative bonehead in the US that is afraid of "7 words" and, etc, etc.... it has no experience at all applying "contemporary community standards" (driven by complaints). <blank stare>
In a fight between "Trade" and "Communications"... which do you think has the support from an oligarchy?
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Tuesday 28th July 2015 10:32 GMT Pascal Monett
"the [..] system of approving rules and then not letting anyone [..] see them for 30 days"
It is high time we get used to the fact that the Internet is a global resource and any decision that pertains to it must be available globally as well, without hindrance or delays.
Take all the time you need to make the decision, by all means, but once made, that decision should be public immediately, no later, and the implementation date (after the publication date, obviously) clear and available.
It's like traffic regulations. No one would think of changing the regulations that concern hundreds of millions of people every day without warning them in advance, right ?
Well the Internet concerns BILLIONS of people every day. You damn well better warn them in advance and not hide anything from them.
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Tuesday 28th July 2015 16:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's a sad, frustrating, disgraceful situation
IMO, the FCC and FTC are both so incompetent, unscrupulous, inept and removed from reality that these people and their decision are disgraceful and mostly contrary to the desires and rights of the populace. More often than not the FCC and FTC do nothing to stop consumer fraud by cable/telcos and others under their regulation. These agencies encourage criminal activity by failing to punish criminal companies who exploit consumers in violation of law. What is the point of having an FCC and FTC if they work against the populace and for big business? Is that what they believe their sworn oat to the public is?
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Tuesday 28th July 2015 20:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: It's a sad, frustrating, disgraceful situation
Sadly AC, you are misidentifying who the customers that are served by the FTC and FCC. It's not the people that get a bill every month for some shoddy services. It's the very (corporate) people that are delivering those shoddy services. That's what regulatory capture is all about.
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