Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., blamed T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel for...
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., blamed T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel for the controversy over building a national public safety network. Before the Senate Democrats’ policy lunch Tuesday, the Commerce Committee Chairman told us that the D-block is a controversial issue “because…
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the people who just want to buy spectrum space for themselves like Sprint and T-Mobile are against it,” he said. “That’s why we have voluntary givebacks for auctions and we solve all their problems.” Net neutrality, like the D-block, is another “one-sided argument” that is tough to explain to other legislators, Rockefeller said. Asked about the House including a rider in its budget to stop the FCC from acting on net neutrality rules, he said: “They're wrong once again. It’s amazing.”