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The FCC's Rapidly Revolving Door

Posted by timothy on from the auf-wiedersehen-and-nice-to-meetcha dept.

Stanl writes "A former Federal Communications Commission bureau chief who played an integral role in shaping policies governing local telephone competition is now a senior vice president for federal regulatory strategy for SBC Communications, helping the telecom giant rewrite the rules she helped draft. The former chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau quit the agency on Sept. 15 of last year and began work at SBC Nov. 1, the Center For Public Integrity says. Here is the report."

2 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. SBC isn't pure by drokus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SBC is a money hungry corp for sure. Everything they do is to benefit themselves. But, I don't believe any company should be forced to sell products or services to the competetion for less than it cost them to provide. No matter what business they are in.

  2. Re:How shocking ! by rgmoore · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But I am fully confident that our elected leaders will know how to address those issues.

    Yes, they've clearly shown that they know how to address this issue: they allow the practice to continue so that there will be lucrative job offers available in case they don't win the next election. You didn't really expect them to close down what amounts to a full employment program for out of work politicians, did you?

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