Susan Crawford Reminds Us of FCC Meeting Tomorrow
FCC meeting tomorrow:
Just a quick note, because I've been tied up all day with one thing and another - Kim Hart of the Washington Post has a fine article here about the implications of the FCC's meeting tomorrow.
And this entry from Web Pro News, by Jason Lee Miller:
Seen as the
last line of defense against the telecommunications industry's desire to keep
mobile phone subscribers bound in contracts, using select phones, accessing
approved websites, downloading approved applications (sounds familiar to the Net
Neutrality worries, doesn't?), Google pledged to bid $4.6 billion on a chunk of
the spectrum, but only if all four conditions of openness were met.
This
infuriated AT&T, who accused Google of trying to stack the deck in its
favor, which is an activity reserved exclusively for AT&T.
Plus this AP story.I'll be in the middle of a short symposium tomorrow when the Commission meets, so let me know how it goes.