FCC Transition Leader Jeff Eisenach Works for Verizon, Not the Public
By Bruce Kushnick
- The FCC's long standing mission statement: To encourage competition in all communications markets and to protect the public interest.
- The Communications Act of 1934, Title 1, Section 1, as amended: To ensure that the American people have available - at reasonable costs and without discrimination - rapid, efficient, nation- and world-wide communication services; whether by radio, television, wire, satellite, or cable.
Should Congress start investigations as to whether a paid consultant to Verizon and other communications companies should lead the FCC's transition team, a government agency that is charged with protecting the public interest?
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