The FCC should ignore a filing by the...
The FCC should ignore a filing by the Justice Department on spectrum and competition (CD April 15 p7), said Fred Campbell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Communications Liberty & Innovation Project, in a blog post Tuesday (http://bit.ly/mSKl6O). “The new…
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‘findings’ in the DOJ filing fail to cite any factual record and are inconsistent with the DOJ’s factual findings in recent merger proceedings that contain extensive factual records,” wrote Campbell, former chief of the FCC Wireless Bureau. “The DOJ filing blithely relies on a discriminatory evidentiary presumption to insinuate that Verizon and AT&T are ‘warehousing’ spectrum, and then uses that presumption to support a proposed remedy that bears no rational relationship to factual findings that the DOJ has actually made. The absence of any empirical evidence supporting the relevant conclusions in the DOJ filing gives it the appearance of a political document rather than a deliberative work product crafted with the traditionally substantive and impartial standards of the Justice Department. The FCC, the independent agency that prides itself on being fact-based and data-driven, should give this screed no weight."