At a time when the FCC cannot even decide if it wants to keep open the 3650-3700 spectrum already set aside for non-exclusive sharing, Congress seems to be picking up the ball. Alas, I am swamped at the moment with work and visiting relatives, so I will refer you to this summary on boing-boing here.
Stay tuned . . . .
.@AjitPaiFCC decides that Puerto Rico is bringing down the happy story on broadband deployment, so he writes it out of the U.S. broadband report.
https://t.co/hk60U3xHYE
“the decision not to include these disaster-stricken areas speaks to this administration’s failure to properly respond to Puerto Rico’s needs both in the immediate wake of the hurricanes &in the recovery efforts that followed.” -@AlisaValentin #PuertoRico
https://t.co/0ZfGrIvvrk
I keep having this little fantasy where a witness says: "Senator Cruz, I banish you from the Interwebz. Avada Kedavra!" And then Cruz disappears from FB or YouTube.
You would prefer they take no action? They decided to take action when they decided to renew the series.
13 Reasons Why was linked to a spike in youth suicide rates of nearly 30% over expected trends in a recent study.
Two years later Netflix is finally taking action. But is it too late? https://t.co/nTjapTROMe
A court sustained the FCC cancelling a license. I may swoon. Courts have made it ridiculously hard for the FCC to force companies to comply with license terms.
Nice win today for the @FCC in the D.C. Circuit affirming our authority to cancel and reauction spectrum when a licensee defaults on installment payments. Congrats to @davidgossett (who argued) and my team on this impressive victory! #AppellateTwitter
https://t.co/6uAaVoKZff
A ray of light! How welcome! Even here on Wetmachine, where I am the patron of darkness.
In other news, Harold, I’ll be out in my lonely hotel room in California this weekend and and and I plan . . . dare I say it. . . to type up the notes from the conversation you and I had about this topic during Worldcon way more than a year ago.