FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler should stop companies “evading...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler should stop companies “evading ownership limits” with shared services agreements and enforce FCC rules that promote diversity, said Free Press in an ex parte filing Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1eiADjl). Free Press and other public interest groups met with…
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Wheeler and his staff Tuesday, the filing said. Free Press also asked Wheeler to keep broadband Internet infrastructure “open and affordable for all” and to preserve “fundamental principles like nondiscrimination, interconnection and competition, on a technology neutral and forward-thinking basis,” said the filing. Free Press also said the commission should “strike the right balance” in the incentive auction by promoting competition among carriers and freeing up unlicensed spectrum. Wheeler should meet with the public, Free Press said: “One of the first things he and the other commissioners should do is get outside the Beltway, meet face to face with the people they've been appointed to serve, and learn more about how these policies affect their lives."