Monty Solomon posted:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/ajit-pai-loses-in-court-judges-overturn-gutting-of-tribal-broadband-program/
Too bad it's not about the misguided net neutrality repeal. But, clearly, it's
not just me thinking these things:
"The Pai FCC's 2017 decision would have limited the $25 subsidy to
'facilities-based' carriers—those that build their own networks—making it
impossible for tribal residents to use the $25 subsidy to buy telecom service
from resellers. The move would have dramatically limited tribal residents'
options for purchasing subsidized service, but the FCC claimed it was necessary
in order to encourage carriers to build their own networks."
Unfortunately, these theoretical ideas he holds are usually false. Extremist
demagogues have a nasty habit of inventing things, and then insisting their
fantasies must be fact. This, from the guy who keeps pretending that expanding
broadband is his number one priority. Say one thing, using flowery rhetoric,
then do the opposite. So, in fact,
"A three-judge panel said the FCC failed to consider that facilities-based
providers have been leaving the Lifeline program and provided no evidence that
banning resellers would spur new broadband deployment."
"This is another example of Chairman Pai pushing his own agenda over the
obligations he has to the American public. We saw it with net neutrality, and
we're seeing it with Lifeline," Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said in a
statement Friday. "He comes in with his mind already made up, ignoring the
process he is supposed to take to revisit rules and programs. This is not what
Congress intended, and the court is right to overturn the FCC's misguided and
unsupported order."
In short, a dictatorial, stubborn cuss. Nothing new there.
"Separately from his tribal Lifeline plan, Pai has proposed kicking resellers
out of the Lifeline program nationwide, not just in tribal areas."
Keep piling it on, Chairman.
Tons of comments. Guess what they say?
Bert
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