For the record
December 12, 2008
If you haven’t read or at least skimmed the House report, DECEPTION AND DISTRACTION: THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION UNDER CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN, I encourage you to do so. On Wednesday I wrote in the blog post “Hate to say ‘I told you so’” that non-ILECs should stick to focusing time and money on infrastructure.
For the record, a few years back, I had a meeting with the president of Comptel at our offices. We discussed openly and candidly the lack of success non-ILEC lobbying efforts has had inside the beltway. I will keep the majority of the conversation private. However, I did provide a bold strategy for Comptel to consider. I suggested that Comptel issue a press release stating that the non-ILECs represented by Comptel have given up and that the ILECs and cable companies have the FCC and Congress in their back pockets. Comptel members are no longer going to fund lobbying efforts to effectuate competition. Comptel would no longer encourage membership to lobby independently as well. Comptel, the last remaining non-ILEC membership group, surrenders to the FCC and Congress. I suggested that doing this will get Comptel and its members all sorts of Congressional hearings. But alas, my suggestion was ignored.
As you will find in the Martin allegations, the game is rigged. It’s a house of mirrors. As we are slowly learning in America, justice, opportunity and fairness is a function of how much you can afford to spend whenever our government or politicians are involved. Just look at the picking the winners and losers on Wall Street by Congress in our financial crisis. The responsible companies are getting punished while “the too big to fail” real smart guys (RSGs) get bailed out. There is a bit of poetic irony with the banking firms selectively being bailed out – all those years banks picked winners or losers for investment not on the basis of merit, accomplishment or experience, but by whom you knew or were referred by.
Has America lost its direction? I would like to hear your opinion.
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Written by Dave Rusin - Telecom Executive
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