Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., asked FCC Chairman...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., asked FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in a letter made public on Tuesday to detail the commission’s work to review payphone policies. Rockefeller said Superstorm Sandy served as a “wake-up call” to impacted residents…
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on the East Coast who found that public payphones continued to work even as other more modern communications systems failed. “Despite their continued vitality, payphones are a vanishing feature of the American communications landscape,” wrote Rockefeller. “I understand that you have worked toward resolution of several pending payphone compensation petitions and I commend your efforts on this front. Yet there is still work to be done,” he said. Rockefeller asked Genachowski to provide the committee with an update on what the commission has done and plans to do to review its payphone policies “in order to prevent the loss of this vital communications service.”