{"id":5219,"date":"2007-01-27T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fcc-martin-and-the-democrats.html"},"modified":"2007-01-27T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T14:12:28","slug":"fcc-martin-and-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/fcc-martin-and-the-democrats.html","title":{"rendered":"FCC, Martin and the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I thought this was an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/01\/26\/2285707.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/a> about the Democratically-controlled Congress and how they may clash with the FCC and especially Chairman Martin (read Martin&rsquo;s past <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/fcc-chairman-kevin-martin-speech.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">views<\/font><\/a> on broadband competition). The article also touches on the relationship between Chairman Martin and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/bush-to-nominate-robert-mcdowell-to-fcc.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Commissioner McDowell<\/font><\/a>. The democrats could put a great deal on Chairman Martin as he is a Republican who is very close to the Bush administration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What does this mean to IP communications? Well Martin is generally pro-ILEC and if anything has made life very difficult for cable companies and VoIP companies. Of course things aren&rsquo;t so black and white but Martin seems to believe a few large companies will give us all the competition we need.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This view is has not been great for IP communications. I expect Democrats to push Martin to do the opposite of what he is currently doing. Isn&rsquo;t that what politics is all about? Subsequently we can expect a better climate for IP communications companies and possibly cablecos as well.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was an excellent article about the Democratically-controlled Congress and how they may clash with the FCC and especially Chairman Martin (read Martin&rsquo;s past views on broadband competition). The article also touches on the relationship between Chairman Martin and Commissioner McDowell. The democrats could put a great deal on Chairman Martin as he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,199,218,118,191,219],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}