Pulver's wishes for the new FCC administration

Ruminating at the DLD (Digital, Life, Design) Conference held in Munich, Germany, purple pundit Jeff Pulver is caught on tape (video, to be more precise) rehashing his blog skirmish with outgoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin and thinking out loud on what would like to see from the FCC under the Obama Administration.

Pulver notes that from 1996 through the end of former FCC Chairman Michael Powell's term in 2005, successive FCC administrators have encouraged and embraced the use of technology. Under Martin's leadership, innovation was "stifled" by the application of legacy rules and regulation to VoIP; specifically, the strict imposition of E911 enforcement on VoIP carriers to wireline standard with a vigor not seen for wireless carriers.

With the new administration and new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski expected to take the helm, Pulver wants to see technology to be "Cool once again" and be a disruptive influence to the status quo. Since Pulver knows a lot of the names embedded into the Obama transition team, he expects good things, and he hopes the FCC will embrace entrepreneurs and disruptive technology, and make him "proud to be a geek" again.

For more:
- See the nearly 8 minute video over at Informilo.

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