Media Access Project Talks with Obama's FCC Transition Team
Posted: Tuesday December 23, 2008
On December 16, MAP’s legal team met with the Obama FCC transition team of Susan Crawford, Kevin Werbach, and Larry Strickling as part of a larger group of public interest organizations. MAP Senior Vice President Harold Feld presented specific
recommendations for changes in spectrum policy focused on enhancing competition, enhancing efficient use of spectrum, aggressive outreach to traditionally marginalized stakeholders such as women and minority-owned businesses, and creating an overall change in culture driven less by ideological commitment to the discredit Chicago School “free market” approach and more driven by actual consumer and provider behavior. Associate Director Parul Desai discussed the need to clarify the FCC’s jurisdiction in specific
areas where jurisdiction is ambiguous or has been challenged.
You can find the spectrum policy presentation here, the FCC authority presentation here.