Wheeler: Funding Woes Could Prevent FCC From Doing Its Job
If legislators don’t provide funding for the FCC to upgrade its IT systems, it could affect the commission’s ability to do its job, Chairman Tom Wheeler said at a news conference after Thursday’s meeting. He responded to a question about…
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an oversight hearing (see 1511170060). If the commission’s “baseline” systems “are hindered, all activities that rely on those services are hindered,” he said. Wheeler referred to the commission’s Network Outage Report System, which monitors broadband networks and their interruptions. “We need to have the capability to track what is happening," he said. Wheeler said he also hopes that legislators don’t reduce the size of the FCC.