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Carriers warm to idea of FCC reform: operators throw support behind proposed new homeland security bureau.(Federal Communications Commission)
Wireless Week, November, 2005 by Rockwell, Mark
As the FCC moves through a transitory period under new Chairman Kevin Martin, big wireless carriers are warming to the chairman's notion of a new homeland security bureau at the agency.
The idea of forming a homeland security bureau, which Martin had been considering last summer, gained additional momentum with Hurricane Katrina and communications companies' response to that crisis. Martin proposed the new organization at the FCC's September remote meeting, which took place at BellSouth's Atlanta network operations center. The center is overseeing BellSouth's recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast.
After the meeting, carriers had privately expressed concerns over how such a new bureau would operate and coordinate with their network operations....
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