FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he will leave the FCC on January 20.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/bus...jit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20/2751727/
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/bus...jit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20/2751727/
The US Internet breathes a sigh of relief...
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he will leave the FCC on January 20.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/bus...jit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20/2751727/
Correct me if I am wrong.
It's hard to say. Trump ran on a policy of eliminating regulations on the internet. When Pai came in, he eliminated Net Neutrality as part of that campaign promise.
But in the past year, the president has sought to create new regulations on the internet, and in the process, get the FCC involved.
He only wanted to regulate things that were against him.
Good I hated him so much I hope the next person in charge is in full support of low power radio and removes bandwidth caps for home internet.
a Democrat appointed court kept holding back the approval.
The ownership rules are going to a conservative supreme court. We'll see if it has better luck there.
If they a real conservatives, they should support the FCC rules.
Good I hated him so much I hope the next person in charge is in full support of low power radio and removes bandwidth caps for home internet.
The question is who will be the next Commissioner?
Pai did a lot of good things too. Like... AM revitaliztion....
Putting FM translators on the air doesn't do anything to revitalize AM. That's just AM-to-FM migration. Good for stations that were able to cash in on it, now they are FM stations. But the AM band itself would have been more "revitalized' if those stations with the new translators would have been permitted, or even required to shut down their AM transmitters, reducing nighttime AM band congestion for the stations that remain stuck there. Pai's FCC actually rejected a lot of good ideas that would have actually improved things on AM in the process. I'm thinking of the proposals Scott Fybush submitted in particular. There was some good stuff there that was passed over.
Agreed, Pai just caused a congested FM band with this AM revitalization. FM reception in most major markets is getting worse because of all the translators.