Who needs the FCC? Mitchell Lazarus of Fletcher...
Who needs the FCC? Mitchell Lazarus of Fletcher Heald asks on the law firm’s blog. “Suppose the FCC closed for good. Would anybody notice?” he asked. Lazarus concludes that the FCC still fills a key role in three areas: wireless…
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licensing, technical rules for transmitters and digital devices and in negotiating international treaties. “If everybody transmits at once, no one can be heard,” Lazarus said (http://bit.ly/19X10vT). “The FCC’s licensing authority, and its back-up enforcement powers, limit who can transmit on what frequency so as keep everyone intelligible. To be sure, some argue that wireless carriers perform a similar function among their own subscribers, without governmental authority. But that is possible only because the FCC’s licensing regime keeps third-party interlopers out of the carriers’ frequency bands."