FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s support for usage-based broadband charges (CD May...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s support for usage-based broadband charges (CD May 23 p2) “marks at least the third time that he has demonstrated his independence from the louder voices among communications policy outfits,” said a sometime-critic of regulation who backs…
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that type of billing. The first such show of independence was the 2010 “net neutrality lite” order and the second a report on the future of media last year “that steered clear of the most intrusive and inappropriate kinds of recommendations that had been proposed for it,” said Media Institute President Patrick Maines. “None of this is to say -- nor would the gentleman necessarily welcome our saying -- that Mr. Genachowski is the very model of what one looks for in an FCC chairman,” Maines wrote on the group’s blog Friday (http://xrl.us/bm9d3q). “Still, in an environment as divisive as Washington’s, it’s probably a good idea once in a while to step outside of it all and give credit where credit is due. So props to Julius Genachowski for his embrace of usage-based broadband billing."