Michael O'Rielly: “I strongly believe that the Commission must be willing to step in to aggressively use authority provided by Congress to…”

These numbers are picked out of the air. We are not going to see $365 million. It is great for a press release, but it is not going to actually develop.

Over time, as the FCC and the courts have interpreted the TCPA, business models and ways of communicating with consumers have also changed. As a result, the rules have become complex and unclear.

I don't believe the bill addresses that, and I worry the money that is invested in other Federal programs is either going to be wasted or conflict and definitely lead to the point of overbuilding, to subsidized overbuilding.

I think it is extremely problematic what we did, not only the process that we went through, and you highlighted it there, but also the outcome.