OT: "It's the Republican agenda"...

[Alan Baker]

...to serve big business interests:

'Only two people on the 30-seat FCC advisory panel come from city
governments and have experience overseeing telcoms regulation; the other
28 members are executives, consultants, lobbyists and think-tankies from
the telcoms sectors.

"Instead the FCC loaded the 30-member panel with corporate executives,
trade groups and free-market scholars. More than three out of four seats
on the BDAC are filled by business-friendly representatives from the
biggest wireless and cable companies such as AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp.,
Sprint Corp., and TDS Telecom. Crown Castle International Corp., the
nation’s largest wireless infrastructure company, and Southern Co., the
nation’s second-largest utility firm, have representatives on the panel.
Also appointed to the panel were broadband experts from conservative
think tanks who have been critical of FCC regulations such as the
International Center for Law and Economics and the Mercatus Center at
George Mason University."'

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