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05/11/2017
Pai: FCC Will Encourage Innovations Like Free Data Plans
FCC chair Ajit Pai told an American Enterprise Institute audience Friday (May 5) that he had hit the ground running since taking over the agency in January, including removing regulations, improving process, taking steps to close the digital divide and encouraging innovations like free wireless data offerings.
Pai was providing a snapshot of his first 100 days, suggesting it captured a pro-innovation, pro-consumer, pro-public interest landscape. He said his key goals for those first days, and the 1,000 to follow, and beyond, were "closing the digital divide; modernizing our rules; promoting innovation; protecting consumers and public safety; and improving the agency’s operations."
Notable for its absence was any mention of his proposal to roll back Title II among his achievements, but that may have been, as he has conceded, that the proposal, which won't even be voted until May 18, is the beginning of a process.
