O'Rielly Welcomes Wheeler Section 11 Effort to Review Telecom Regulations
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has moved to begin a review of telecom regulations under Section 11 of the Communications Act, said Commissioner Mike O'Rielly in a statement Wednesday. O'Rielly welcomed the action and said he hoped commissioners would "vote quickly…
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on this rather clean procedural step" to start the process. "My staff and I have been at a loss as to why the Commission has failed to conduct this important task since 2012, despite the requirement that it occur biennially. Given that the Commission has already missed one opportunity to minimize our burdens for telecommunications carriers, it will be particularly important to seize this moment to really scrub off the cobwebs," he said. "To expedite the overall process, I’ve asked that we shorten our internal review from four months to two. It shouldn’t take individual Bureaus and Offices more than eight weeks to thoroughly examine rules under their purview and recommend candidates for elimination. With a little cooperation, this could be the most significant execution of section 11 to date.”