FCC Administrative Reorganization Need Seen
The FCC needs administrative reorganization, said outside observers and inside officials at the FCBA annual seminar Saturday. "It does an admirable job of getting things done despite its structure," said David Redl, counsel to House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden,…
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R-Ore. "Let's make this place make sense in a 21st century information economy." Since the Wireless Bureau regulates vastly more than the Wireline Bureau, "the names don't seem to make any sense," Redl said. Meanwhile, Wireless' Auctions and Spectrum Access Division "is essentially its own bureau," he said. Wireline Bureau Chief Matthew DelNero agreed, saying the FCC structure "doesn't necessarily line up neatly with how industry is structured." He pointed to universal service as not falling neatly into any bureau category. A reorganization would be "a very big undertaking," DelNero said, with the added challenge of making sure boundaries between bureaus wouldn't inhibit collaboration among them.