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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."

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  1. Re:SBC isn't pure by namespan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Look up the story of the dentist in San Antonio who noticed that SBC was getting rid of their pay phones all over town because "they weren't profitable" and started buying them up . . . he runs hundreds of pay phones with 1/10th the number of employees (and they cost on 25 cents instead of 50).

    Just google'd for this story using the terms "San Antonio pay|public phones dentist" and I'm not coming up with anything that looks promising. Any hints? (Newspaper, date range, other key words)?

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