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FCC Commissioner Offers Thoughts on Telecom, Broadcast TV Issues in Texas.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2002
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 8--RICHARDSON, Texas--The Federal Communications Commission should review and change deregulation policies to ensure telephone companies are investing in new higher speed networks, a member of the commission said here Thursday.
Speaking to a group of telecommunications lawyers, commissioner Kevin J. Martin said the FCC shouldn't apply the telephone service rules to new broadband services.
"If we apply a mountain of common-carrier regulation with their attendant cost to broadband services, we risk stifling innovation and deployment of these services," he said.
Mr. Martin, who was nominated to the commission by President Bush in April, addressed a number...
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