Clyburn 'Deeply Concerned' With Direction of FCC Majority
Saying she's "deeply concerned" with the majority commissioners' priorities on localism, viewpoint diversity and communications services affordability, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn criticized the agency's most-recent mobile wireless competition report, according to prepared remarks for a Tuesday Media Institute speech. She…
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and fellow Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel slammed the report when adopted along party lines 3-2 at the September commissioners' meeting (see 1709260045). She said the report, narrower in scope than past years', doesn't offer a route for supporting policies that would help increase wireless connectivity in rural areas. She also cited a variety of complaints about the Lifeline program and related universal service issues and pushed for a rulemaking, though saying she didn't have ready ideas on how to tackle removing barriers to entry for new providers. The FCC didn't comment.