Well, isn't this just too ironic? Our FCC Chairman seems to understand that the
FCC has a role to play, for what is in essence a neutrality of the telephone
network issue, but seems oddly unable to carry this over to the modern day
critical telecom services.
How is this even possible? How is it that the agency which regulates the
telecoms finds itself unable to grasp that what applies to the legacy voice
telecoms must equally apply to today's voice/data/streaming media telecoms?
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-349464A1.pdf
"For far too long, many rural Americans have faced a communications problem
that you'd think would be a relic from a century ago: They can't reliably
receive long-distance phone calls. Some calls drop; others are never connected
at all. This is unacceptable, and it's a problem we at the FCC intend to fix."
Well, Chairman Pai, imagine that you have been encouraging just this kind of
bad behavior, for Internet broadband service, if it suits the desires of the
local broadband monopolies. Hey, can you begin to understand the outrage you
are creating? Can you please get a clue?
"The Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act gives the FCC another
tool to tackle this problem head-on. The new law empowers the agency to oversee
a significant source of rural call completion failures: so-called
'intermediate' carriers who carry calls between originating carriers (on the
caller's side) and terminating carriers (on the recipient's side). The FCC now
can also establish service quality standards for call completion by
intermediate carriers, and the tools to hold them accountable."
Nothing short of astonishing. Our FCC Chairman seems to be stuck in the last
century, only capable of understanding his role for ye olde telephone system.
(And never mind the whacked out yahoos who can do no better than parrot his
nonsense.)
Bert
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