Hundt: Internet Is The New Broadcasting, Cable
Former FCC chairman Says Broadband Plan Will Mark Net As New Common Medium
John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 3/12/2010 12:28:44 PM
Former FCC chairman Reed Hundt says broadband plan will mark net as new common medium
That is according to a video of a speech at Columbia University, first reported March 12 by TVNewsCheck and coming only days before the new national broadband plan is to be unveiled.
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has said that the commission is not out to force broadcasters off their spectrum, though the plan will include a proposal to pay broadcasters who want to give up some spectrum for wireless broadband.
Hundt, two of whose top staffers during his chairmanship in the mid-1990s are FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and broadband plan top advisor Blair Levin, said that he decided in 1994 that the Internet should be the common medium of the nation and broadcasting should not be.
He said he did a lot of things between 1994 and 1997 to bring that about. He said the fundamental decision was to allow computers to connect to the Internet for free. He said we "stole" the value of the Internet from the telephone companies and gave it to the public.
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