FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai declined to take a...
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai declined to take a position on whether there should be a “drop dead date certain” for turning off TDM networks and moving the U.S.’s telecom infrastructure entirely to Internet Protocol. “That obviously is the $64,000 question,…
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which I hope the task force confronts,” he said at a Wednesday evening Phoenix Center event. Pai said he doesn’t have a preconceived view of where the task force should end up. If it hastens the industry’s transition to IP, that’s something the agency should consider, he said. But consumer protection remains important, he said: Consumers don’t want to think about the technology they use to call 911. Pai also said the agency should exercise its forbearance authority more robustly. “It shouldn’t take us 12 months to figure that a regulation imposed by the FCC’s telegraph division in 1936” about money orders “no longer remains relevant in 2013,” he said. As the commission considers issues relevant to the incentive auction, it’s “critical” that he hear from industry members “who know the nuts and bolts” of how spectrum works, how auction design should work and how repackaging should work, he said. “Most appealing” to Pai are people who come in and acknowledge their policy perspective while acknowledging “indisputable facts.”