[opendtv] Re: News: Sununu Seeks To Block FCC Tech Mandates
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:55:58 -0800
You mean there is hope for COFDM in the U.S. and -- shudder -- it comes from
a Republican?
> "would prevent the FCC from requiring or
> imposing a specific technology, technological standard, solution, or
> product on industry."
John Willkie
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> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6406026.html?display=Breaking+N
> ews&referral=SUPP&nid=2228
>
> Breaking News
> Sununu Seeks To Block FCC Tech Mandates
> By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/9/2007 2:09:00 PM
>
> Republican Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire, a member of the
> Senate Commerce Committee. says he is working on a bill that would
> block the FCC from imposing "technology mandates" on the
> communications industry.
>
> The technology mandate of particular interest to the Senator is the
> broadcast flag, which the FCC imposed but was unimposed by the
> courts, which said it had exceeded its authority because the
> technology was post-transmission.
>
> The bill, which stems from an amendment on a Senate telecom bill that
> died in the last Congress, "would prevent the FCC from requiring or
> imposing a specific technology, technological standard, solution, or
> product on industry."
>
> "The FCC seems to be under the belief that it should occasionally
> impose technology mandates," said Sununu in announcing the bill, a
> belief he called "misguided." Sununu said his legislation "will
> ensure that decisions about the design and development of products
> and services to meet FCC rules are made by technology experts, not
> government regulators."
>
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