said by tubbynet :

said by Karl Bode :

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but AT&T lobbyists insisted that providing the data was too expensive

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any bets on whether or not the savings will be passed on to the subscriber?

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The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) applauds the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) announcement Saturday that it will abandon the outdated and discriminatory ARMIS reporting requirements.

In comments filed with the Commission last week, director of the IPI Center for Technology Freedom Bartlett Cleland said these regulatory requirements applied only to a tiny portion of the communications industry, distorted the marketplace with irrelevant data and hindered the deployment of the best products and services to consumers.

Regulatory policy should be technologically neutral, says Cleland, and by ending the requirements for ARMIS reporting, the Commission will level the playing field for those in the marketplace.

When the ARMIS reports were first created they were said to be temporary, and yet, 18 years later, they continued to be required for only a handful of those who competed in the wireline communications marketplace.

"Even if this information had been collected broadly from the vast and rapidly changing communications industry, the fact is that the goal in collecting the information had long since been achieved," said Cleland.

In addition, both the states and FCC itself broadly collected similar data already, and the free market also already provided a more consumer friendly and accessible report.

said by TKJunkMail :

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Of course everyone but the baby bells is arguing that this "regulatory underbrush" was providing data that would, were the FCC to actually make decisions based on data and not party or corporate loyalty, prove useful.

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Not everyone:
»www.marketwatch.com/news/story/i···ist=hppr
The Institute for Policy Innovation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan public policy organization based in Dallas, Texas.

said by Mr Truthiness :

Bartlett Cleland worked for John Ashcroft and then Grover Norquist. I suppose on some planet, he could be considered nonpartison, unfortunately, not this one. Here's a cut and paste from Source Watch:

"Bartlett D. Cleland grew up in Illinois and graduated from Millikin University (IL) with a B.S. in philosophy and business administration. He received his MBA from St. Louis University and his J.D. from the St. Louis University School of Law. Bartlett Cleland is admitted to the Missouri bar.

After his study he worked for Lee Hecht Harrison as a consultant for executive outplacement. In 1994 he was a research assistant in the 'Ashcroft for Senate campaign', and in 1995 he worked for the then Missouri Senator John Ashcroft. He was the Senator's technology counsel from 1996 to 1998 where he worked with Paul Clement. Then he started working for Americans for Tax Reform and for a year and a half he was Grover Norquist's technology and policy counsel. Since 2000 Bartlett Cleland was the Director of the Center for Technology Freedom, at the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI). The 'Center for Technology Freedom' was created when Bartlett Cleland joined IPI. [1] Kelli Emerick is a Research Fellow at this center."

said by TKJunkMail :

Seems well qualified to comment on technology issues and the FCC.

said by Dogfather :

It's good for consumers in that when Martin is done he'll get a big Telco consulting job.

said by tubbynet :

any bets on whether or not the savings will be passed on to the subscriber?

q.

said by TKJunkMail :

Seems well qualified to comment on technology issues and the FCC.