FCC Just Couldn’t Stop Voting
Well, it’s election day and apparently the FCC commissioners liked voting so much they took votes on just about everything. Amazingly, it looks like they even made some good decisions. The big one, of course, and the one that will get the most press, is the unanimous vote to free up television “white space” spectrum. While the NAB made a last ditch effort to stop this, the FCC made the right call here. This spectrum can be put to much better use, which can have a huge impact on increasing innovation and wireless technologies. This is a big win. The FCC also approved Sprint and Clearwire’s deal to set up a joint venture for their WiMax operations, as well as allowing Verizon to buy Alltel. Both of those deals make sense as well, so it’s good to see them approved.
Other than that, the FCC said that it’s going to start looking into the pricing policies of cable companies… and Verizon. Who’s missing? FCC boss Kevin Martin’s best friends over at AT&T. To be honest, while it’s quite likely that the cable companies and the telcos (yes, including AT&T) are abusing their oligopoly position, the answer shouldn’t be having the FCC act as a watchdog over pricing policies, but for a better system to be set up that encourages real competition. In the meantime, though, can someone explain why AT&T was left out of the bunch?
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