While most technology fans are still drooling over Apple’s new iPhone, a future crisis awaits unsuspecting consumers. Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman, along with a gaggle of self-interested advocates, are attempting to use politics and government regulations to turn back the clock on the Internet. Hundt, for those who don’t remember, was the former FCC chairman who presided over the disastrous plan for the government to “create competition” in telecommunications by forcing network owners to allow competitors to use their lines at government controlled rates.
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Spectrum ‘Rigging’ Threatens the Net
Posted by: Sonia Arrison July 13, 2007 04:00 AMWhile most technology fans are still drooling over Apple’s new iPhone, a future crisis awaits unsuspecting consumers. Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman, along with a gaggle of self-interested advocates, are attempting to use politics and government regulations to turn back the clock on the Internet. Hundt, for those who don’t remember, was the former FCC chairman who presided over the disastrous plan for the government to “create competition” in telecommunications by forcing network owners to allow competitors to use their lines at government controlled rates.