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| FCC National Broadband Team is a Milquetoast Bunch This shouldn't be surprising. Look at who is actually on the FCC's national broadband plan team.
At the top, Blair Levin, who has spent much of the past decade working for a Wall St. analyst firm. His clients are the big investment banks and ISPs who don't want anything to rock the boat. It is why his only idea in this whole plan is to take spectrum from broadcasters, because they are the weakest politically.
Working under Levin is a bunch of milquetoast consultant types who don't know anything about broadband. They are the most risk-averse bunch, who spend their days in meetings with industry representatives telling them that the problem is not competition.
Then the team has as it's chief economist Scott Wallsten, who worked for years at the AT&T funded Progress and Freedom Foundation, and later at TPI, both coin-operated think tanks whose exists solely to spread deregulatory propaganda for the major incumbents.
They also hired Tom Koutsky as a Senior Advisor, who is a founder of the Phoenix Center, a Bell Company supported "think tank" who also only exists to propagandize for primarily AT&T and Verizon.
Only after months of being criticized for these questionable hires did they hire someone who isn't a total milquetoast or shill, David Isenberg, but that was too little, too late.
This national broadband plan is going to be a total joke, but only reporters like Karl Bode and other tech bloggers will get that. The worst part is, this FCC and the incumbents have the traditional tech media reporters believing that this process is legitimate.
-- JimZsz | |
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