If we want to use it wisely, we ought to spend it as wisely as the companies are spending their money, which is to build fiber.
Tom Wheeler
The Public Record
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May 5, 2021
Let me be clear. The FCC will not impose utility-style regulation.
— Tom Wheeler
We are stuck with the buggywhip era, the horse and buggy era of analog 9-1-1.
This self-serving economics manipulation has been used by the Trump FCC like a drunk uses a lamppost—to lean against, to support the unsupportable.
The big kick I get is that AT&T and the cable companies have been putting out statements that say, 'This is going to thwart innovation.' And I scratch my head and say, 'My goodness, let's see. When was the last time that competition…
The benefits of IP networks are simply not being realized because for far too many Americans, Next Generation 911 networks don't exist.
We must be vigilant. What we have been doing, as I said before, is playing Whac-a-Mole on this.
We just had a $51 million judgment against a company called Total Call Mobile which was engaged in virulent fraud.
Congresswoman, the reality is that for decades, we have been regulating the use of network information in the telephone network saying a phone company cannot make it available to a third party without the consumers' permission.
It is hard to understate the seriousness of something like this for two reasons. One, as has been pointed out, this is the people's money.