FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn hasn’t decided whether broadband should be reclassified under Title II, she...
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn hasn’t decided whether broadband should be reclassified under Title II, she said in an interview on C-SPAN’s The Communicators. She said she’s passionate about open networks, making sure consumers know what they are getting and other…
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goals listed in the National Broadband Plan, but how the commission will accomplish them hasn’t been decided. “We are still in negotiations with the American public and companies we regulate” on how to move forward, Clyburn said. Public-safety network interoperability and a Universal Service Fund overhaul are among her major goals as the commission tries to carry out the plan, she said. On USF, the commission will work within the “existing financial framework” and won’t “cause the contribution factor to go up,” Clyburn said. “There is a probability of shifting in terms of the factors, especially as it relates to rural carriers, and those are the types of conversations we must have. Rural carriers, in particular, are concerned about the migration from land line support to this new kind of infrastructure or this new system we're putting forth. Those are the types of details we are going to have to work out.” Moving from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina was a culture shock because at the FCC there’s less interaction with the people involved, she said. The FCC filing process is exact and it’s a little “cold” compared to the evidentiary hearings at the state commission, Clyburn said. At first, she said, she sometimes felt like she was on a “big eighth floor island.”