Provider. Host this week on the communicators we are pleased to be joined by fcc commissioner michael oreilly, one of three republicans on the commission and our guest reporter this week is Margaret Harding magill of axials. Commissioner oreilly, last couple of months have been a challenge for everybody but especially for the communication industry. What has changed . Guest everyone is faced with different difficult circumstances from the covid pandemic. The Communication Network as a whole seems to be Holding Quite well. I dont like to promise anything or congratulate anybody too early but we will have to see if things hold but im pretty impressed with the way things are now. Everyones lives have been thrown in the air. Im being interviewed for my bedroom and yesterday i was in the nursery and i did a press conference from the girls room in the basement with toys everywhere. Everyones world is in a people and facing trouble and that is why most people have more difficult circumstances
I dont like to promise anything or congratulate anybody too early, so well have to see if things hold. But im pretty impressed where things are now. But everyones lives have been thrown up in the air. Im being interviewed from my bedroom. Yesterday i was in the nursery and i did a press conference from the girls basement where all the toys are. Everyone is facing trouble. And more people are having more circumstances more difficult than i do. So were all living through this together. Is this a permanent change in our lives . Well, i dont know about that. I have to defer to some of the health experts. But in terms of some of the issues, some of the workfromhome issues, certainly conferences being done through this medium is more likely to increase over time. I wouldnt say this is the new normal but its a lot more this way than returning to the old style, in my opinion. And if this is a continuing trend, whats the f. C. C. s role in this . Well, it depends on what service were talking ab
Everyones lives been thrown up in the air. Im being interviewed for my bedroom. Just that i was in the nursery at the data press conference from the girls room in the basement with toys everywhere. Everyones a world is in upheaval, and understand why people of more difficult and more different circumstances i do. Host is is a permanent change in our lives . Guest i dont know about that. I have to do defer to somewhat health experts. In terms of some of the work from home issues, certainly conference is being done through this medium is more likely to increase over time. I wouldnt say this is the new normal but its a lot more this way and returning fully to the old style, in my opinion. Host if this is a continuing trend, whats the fccs role in this . Guest it depends on what service were talking about what images from the more practical sense we have a big new building we are building and were getting ready to move into, and its use is going to be much different than the past. We didnt
Thanks are being with us for the first time ever. Guest my pleasure. Host i want to start and ask you, what exactly is the ftcs responsibility when it comes to telecommunications . Guest the federal trade commission has no jurisdiction over common carriers, although it can investigate and challenge conduct that the pilots is the antitrust laws or the Consumer Protection laws if it is a noncommentary activity thats undertaken by common carriers. The Net Neutrality debate took away jurisdiction from the federal trade commission for broadband isps when the isps were categorized under title ii as common carriers, and with the rolling back of the Net Neutrality regulations we do now i can have jurisdiction over broadband isps. Host define a common carrier. Guest im sure theres a very technical definition but it is an entity that falls within title ii of the ftc jurisdiction. Host with that be a landline phone company . Guest yes. Host when it comes to the Net Neutrality provisions or lack t
Thatatory light touch chairman pai talks about . That thes both, in s. E. C. Just decided to roll back rules that were implemented, as in 2015, and in doing the f. C. C. Will return to a theyatory structure that argue served the internet well decades and represents a light touch on industry. That same approach will potentially allow internet providers to speed up some websites, slow down others. And even if they decide not to do that right away, its conceivable that in the future, the industry could decide to take actions that, under the old rules, would have been considered violations. Host are there safeguards against such behavior . Guest the f. C. C. Says its transferred some authority to the f. T. C. , the federal trade commission, the consumer and thatn watchdog, agency will be responsible for fielding Net Neutrality complaints as well as going are allegedies that to have acted in unfair or deceptive ways. However,g question, whether or not the f. T. C. Will have enough authority