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April 13, 2010
Michael Powell on reclassifying broadband
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Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, reacting to a proposal to reclassify broadband as a "telecommunications" service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, in an interview with Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post:
Here's the bottom line, to talk about going to Title II is talking about doing something relatively epic, novel and unprecedented. It doesn't mean they couldn't do it, but I might challenge it.
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I hate the idea of Title II for broadband. I think we would really regret it because for a regulator versed in what it means, it means thousands and thousands of pages that would fall into this space and we would spend our lifetime trying to clean it up. And the real worry is that we will enter another prolonged period of litigation.

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