Talk:Michael Powell (politician)
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As the chairman of the FCC, Powell has led from his long-stated philosophy of less government regulation of telecom.
Mobile Number Portability was planned and implemented while Powell was chairman of the FCC. The move was quite possibly the biggest regulatory measure imposed on telecommunicatiosn since AT&T's divestiture in 1982.
Mobile number portability forces a cell phone provider to give a number in its system to a competitor within minutes at the customer's request.
Imagine the outcry if someone wanted to take thier mailing address from someone in Las Vegas to somewhere in Miami. Or in a more comparable analogy, imagine if someone wanted to take their URL domain name to a competitor. Or imagine if someone wanted to take their IP address from one ISP to another.
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- IP addresses, as well as physical addresses, are assigned in a logical manner, i.e. context provides enough information to narrow down a particular node within a physical (in a network sense) domain. FQDNs (which actually are transferrable) are not logically assigned, but are rather assigned as a "front-end" to a particular IP. Therefore, your analogy is false.
This article seems like it needs a general rewrite. Some of the stuff, such as the statement at the top of the discussion page, seem blatantly false. Others, such as the description of Powell's accident, are way too graphic and detailed (and probably quite a bit exaggerated). It's also a bit sparse on facts, including the controversy between him and Howard Stern.
Forgot to add the fact that as Commissioner, Powell did not recuse himself and was a key vote in approving the multibillion dollar AOL-Time Warner Merger. Powell's father Colin was a member of the board of directors at the time the merger was approved. His family made millions on the transaction
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[edit] This is a case of "DOUBLE THINK"
Someone better change this to reflect something of at least a slighly less bias nature. Powell is a lobby-boy appointi of the telecom industry.
[edit] Broadcast cross-ownership rules
Shouldn't this article mention the 3-2 defeat of Powell's proposed cross-ownership rules in 2003 after the receiving of an unprecedentedly large number of public comments? (The FCC had at first tried to push the relaxed cross-ownership rules through with only one public hearing.) This was big news and it's as if it never happened from reading this article. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/conglomeration/fcc2.html Badagnani 09:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is Michael Powell now working for a Democrat? No.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=51686
Same name, but different guy.
[edit] Temporarilly removed odd sentence found after categories
I temporarilly removed the following uncited sentence from the very end of the article.
"Frequent battles with Howard Stern led howard to Sirius Satellite Radio. 2006 - Rumored to be a replacement for Paul Tagliabue as NFL Football commissioner"
It was strangely typed in after the category section with no citations for verification. If either or both of the above statements can be verified through references, feel free to reinsert them into an appropriate section of the article with citation. Dugwiki 17:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is Michael Powell a politician or a former FCC Chairman?
Try as I might, I can't find any reference in the article to Michael Powell's political career. Wouldn't Michael Powell (FCC) be a more appropriate heading? --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cathandler (talk • contribs).
- Maybe. But he certainly seems to have politicized his office while there. Badagnani 07:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
All chairmen of independent US agencies are appointed by the president, as are all cabinet secretaries. It's the nature of the job that they are political. -- Taxcheat
By that standard, then, why does current FCC Chairman Kevin Martin have (FCC) instead of (politician) in the heading? --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.97.50.10 (talk • contribs).
