Note well, then, the religious overtones of the
FCC playing the profanity card for the first time in its history.
But somehow during the course of the proceedings to consider these changes, the
FCC asked whether commercial entities should be permitted to buy ITFS spectrum at an auction, the
FCC's preferred mechanism for allocating scarce spectrum and squeezing out critically needed revenue for the federal government.
From a practical perspective, it seems unlikely that a customer who verbally requests a fax will complain to the
FCC (or file a lawsuit).
The
FCC has just imposed a multi-billion dollar annual TV tax on American consumers," said CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro.
The
FCC regulates wireless facilities that may result in human exposure to harmful RFR.
Small-business owners are consumers, too, and the bottom line is that small businesses as consumers got the short end of the stick from this
FCC decision,'' said Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business Survival Committee.
Those years were what one
FCC commissioner would later recall as "the whorehouse era," when mythic network lobbyists like Scoop Russell and Earl Gammons magisterially strolled Washington hallways, dispensing cash and instructions to their federal minions.
The study, by Greg Sidak of the pro-business American Enterprise Institute and Criterion Economics, also states that despite its inability to produce licenses to Auction 35 winners since the auction concluded in 2001, the
FCC has refused to cancel the re-auction results, even though it has no spectrum to give the winners.
The nub of the problem is dealing with the transitional period,'' said Reed Hundt, chairman of the
FCC.
