MMTC's Trump Team 'Imperatives' Include Sponsored Data, Decommissioning AM
The Trump administration should preserve the FCC Lifeline program, create multilingual emergency alert system warnings and address employment discrimination in the communications industry, according to a list of 12 "imperatives" from the Multicutural Media Telecom and Internet Council to the…
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president-elect's transition team Friday. Other imperatives included appointing an FCC that includes diversity concerns in its rulemakings, maintaining free data programs, and banning prison phone rate overcharging. Acting on the imperatives is "vitally important" to fixing the "dismally disproportionate levels of participation among diverse groups" in the communications industry, said MMTC in a release Monday. The group also wants a '"Glide Path' for the Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Humane Decommissioning of the AM Band in a Manner that Preserves Minority Ownership."