[IP] Former FCC officials oppose AOL's IM request

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

The author of the article mis-spelled my name. Oh well

Dave


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[Note:    Boy, Faulhaber
and Farber are on their way to becoming a real high-tech policy 'tag
team'.  First, they've been speaking up on spectrum policy and now
this. I look forward to hearing their collective wisdom on the spam
problem!  <g>  DLH]


At 14:08 -0700 5/6/03, Monty Solomon wrote:
>From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
>Subject: Former FCC officials oppose AOL's IM request
>Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:08:38 -0700
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>      Former FCC officials oppose AOL's IM request
>      - May 6, 2003 04:47 PM (Reuters)
>
>NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - Two former Federal
>Communications Commission officials have urged the regulatory
>agency to think twice about AOL Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL)
>request to lift restrictions on its ability to offer high-speed
>instant messaging services like video conferencing.
>
>In a petition filed with the FCC made available this week,
>Gerald Faulhaber and David Faber -- former FCC officials who
>are now professors at the University of Pennsylvania --
>disagreed with AOL's reasons for lifting the restrictions the
>FCC place on it when it approved AOL's purchase of Time Warner.
>
>...
>
>      - <http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=34098539>

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