They are sandbagging, and I will leave it there.

In my view, not the regulators. In my view, not the legislative branch. In my view, the shareholders themselves.

just because a company continually refuses to deal with the stranded assets problem... does not mean that they ought to.

This bipartisan legislation is an important and thoughtful kickoff to a conversation about how best to modernize small cell deployment policy.

It is vital that companies like Midco that provide high-speed and reliable broadband to the most rural areas of our country have equal access to spectrum.

That is why the body needs this law to say, 'This is what is in and this is what is out for companies.'

You need trust and check, and the check part needs to have some stick to it as well.

you cannot really have a law in this space without the FTC's ability to be the expert agency and to enforce.

There are no angels. God bless them all.

the reason we are having a more robust, more serious conversation about a Federal privacy law is that there is this California privacy law

Yes, I will just add that I agree completely, of course, that fining authority is needed for the FTC, and it must be substantial penalties.

some of the tech companies are really serious and want to do this, and want to do this regardless of whether or not the California law gets amended

let us all not pretend not to know that that is happening. That is exactly what is happening.

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Are you getting it right the first time?

Why is it not the Federal Communication Commission's job, plenty of funding, and plenty of expertise--to get it right the first time.

I don't understand what you said. And I don't hear a sense of urgency at all as it relates to this issue.

FCC overstates broadband access on tribal lands, does not have a formal process to obtain tribal input.

But in this instance, it seems like their size is a problem.

Isn't this organization just too big?

We're not going to get 60 votes for anything and replace a progressive California law, however flawed you may think it is, with a non-progressive Federal law.

it seems to me absurd that we have to have the FTC come to a company, say you're violating something, then you come to an agreement

I think it matters very much if we're going to write a new Federal privacy law that the FTC has rulemaking authority under APA.

the problem right now is that if there's a violation, the FTC doesn't have--may or may not have a rule specifically that's being violated

We know that Russia has interfered in elections among our NATO allies, and to both Senator Corker and Senator Warner's point, it is working, it is cheap, and it is asymmetrical.