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Tom Wheeler: Congresswoman, the reality is that for decades, we have been regulating the use of network information in the telephone…

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
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.
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Tom Wheeler

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Wheeler defends FCC's regulation of network information similar to broadband.

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