What you think is the number one priority for the fcc . I would say the biggest priority, the biggest immediate priority, is the spectrum incentive option that is scheduled for next summer. That is enacted by the to sell to sell thee fcc spectrum to address the growing spectrum crunch, which is being driven by the massive proliferation of smartphones and tablets. Assess confirmation hearing, tom wheeler talked about the upcoming spectrum auctions. Here is what he had to say. I want to get your response. [video clip] the incentive option, as i said, is something that has never been tried before. , liken it to a rubiks cube that over on the side of the cube, you have got to provide an incentive for broadcasters to want to auction their spectrum. On this side of the cube, you have got to provide a product that is structured in such a way that incentivizes the wireless carriers or whoever the bidders thate to want to bid for spectrum. And then in the middle of this, on an almost realtime b
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Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
Caller thanks for taking my call. Thats going to be thats something fouled that one that was just on there. The filibuster change theyre talking about is just for president ial appointments. The advise and consent that bob spoke about, both sides play politics with that, and the politics of which president is that the republicans are not going to give him anything because he is a black man. We have to deal with race in this country. And its deepseated and i dont understand whoa he cant have his people, by a simple majority, let the republicans have their guys by a simple majority, take it out of the politics, and harry reid knows the constitution. It says in there, the president should have his people by a majority vote. Host sharon, home state of mitchell mcconnell, kentucky. Youre take on all of this. Caller good evening. Thank you for taking the call. I was raised a democrat in this wonderful state, basically youre putty much told that as a child, you need to be a democrat. I recent