The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.
For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.
Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.
Inserting the FCC into our states' economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and violates state sovereignty in a manner that warrants deeper examination.
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'
