Wheeler was born on April 5, 1946 in Redlands, California. He attended Ohio State University.[7] From 1969 to 1976, Wheeler led the trade group Grocery Manufacturers of America.[8] He then went on to work at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association from 1976 to 1984, becoming president of the trade group in 1979. For a year until its closure, Wheeler was president of NABU Network, before spending a number of years creating or running several different technology startups. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, a post he held until 2004.
Since then, I only get such calls from companies that got my details in exchange for some freebie. I tell them I'm not interested, and would they please stop calling me, and they do.
The only calls I got recently were in English with a heavy Indian accent, "Ilse Smid" or another stereotypically Dutch name, claiming to be from Microsoft Windows, and that my computer had alerted them that it had a virus... These scam calls all came from nonexistent Dutch phone numbers.
The funniest one is when my fixed line provider (let's call it P) calls me on my mobile phone (which is another provider) and ask me if I'm one oh their (P) customer :-) (the explanation is that the mobile/fixed businesses are separated to avoid monopoly and, since they can't share customer data ('cos of data protection rules), they have to ask them again :-))
Telco has not been a free market, ever.
Competition is only a solution for problems where the telcos' interest and the consumers' interest align. And that's very rare.
Someday we'll have A.I. to screen calls for us, and hopefully it can also screen this highly-upvoted-but-worthless tripe from message boards for us.
If you pay upvotes and karma, you get unsubstantiated politicised arguments. The feedback mechanism rewards those comments.
Otherwise, every hyperbole will have to be considered as irrefutable truth.
Or, is the 'who comes up with wittiest hyperbole' is the type of 'thought exchange' framework you would like to engage in?
That kinda/sorta was the mandate, until we put a telecom shill in charge.
"An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation."
Source: https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/what-we-do
You can have arguments until forever about what they should or shouldn't do, but their raison d'être is to set policy according to these overarching objectives.
Oh, and just to be clear, the lack of an Oxford comma in that quote is inexcusable :)
In 2005, the FCC decided that ISPs should be regulated by them. From 2005 - 2012, Congress failed to pass new bills granting the FCC this authority. It was denied by congress. In 2015, the FCC decided that they didn't congress to grant that authority.
So yeah, the FCC website claiming they have an authority is not an impartial source. Two years later, the FCC reverted back to the Title I classification.
So for 2 years, the FCC claimed a power that they were not authorized to claim.
If Congress wants the FCC to have this power they can easily pass a bill granting them that authority, they have repeatedly failed to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...
It's inexplicable that the same party that claims the act establishing the FCC is more limited than the wording states while the federal arbitration act is continuously expanded to cover cases that neither the authors nor previous courts ever tolerated.
https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/why-title-ii-is-not...
The GOP lays out an obviously slanted view about why they are opposed to the "utility-style" regulation that Title II entails.
However, this assumes that the market is functional when it's been clear since the '96 Telecom Act that it has been anything but. The idea that the FCC can't claim this authority without Congress acting first is FUBAR.
From pricing (generally higher for lower speed) to barriers to entry (the upfront cost for infrastructure is enormous), time has shown that carriers and ISPs will refuse to behave unless they are forced to.
Legislation is needed, but Republican arguments that a light touch will "preserve innovation" or some other nonsense doesn't work. 1993 was a long time ago and almost anyone who cares about this issue will tell you that Internet access is a utility (essential service, widely available, for reasonable cost) but the incumbent providers don't act like one.
(Save for maybe Google/WebPass, Sonic, and any number of municipal broadband initiatives)
What do you think about the 'Free Press' group asking FCC to sensor Trump's corona virus updates?
Does FCC have authority to do that?
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/far-left-media-group-as...