The other Powell has a big year too; Face value.(Michael Powell, America's telecoms regulator, faces some tough choices)(head of the Federal Communications Commission)
Economist (US), The, January, 2003
Michael Powell's four big decisions may make or break America's communications industries
IN FRANCE, government officials are elite enarques; in Japan, bureaucrat-gods. The best that America's downtrodden, beaten-up bureaucrats can wish for is probably quiet obscurity. That, broadly, used to be the state of affairs at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a government regulator whose extraordinary reach spans telecoms, cable TV, the media and, increasingly, big chunks of the rest of the tech industry. Then came 2000, the telecoms crash and sudden, hostile attention. Technogurus such as George Gilder, a popular newsletter writer, pronounced the FCC to blame for the trillions of dollars that vanished in the telecoms gold rush of the late 1990s. Congress,...
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