Attention all blog readers! You must see this!!
I think this may be a first in the Blogosphere. It's a front row seat to a debate between two top level telecommunications policy leaders. It was so good and so timely, I couldn't wait until Monday.
In this corner (wearing the white hat) ;-) is Kyle McSlarrow, President and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. And in that corner (wearing the black hat) is Tom Tauke, Executive Vice President - Public Affairs, Policy and Communications for Verizon.
I posted a link to the debate below but first, a brief explanation.
News leaked out on Friday that the FCC was not going to go along with a really bad staff
recommendation having to do with Verizon's behavior during the number
porting process. That's when a phone company is notified that a customer decided to change phone providers and is told to port the customer's phone number to the new carrier.
In yet another middle-of-the-night announcement, the FCC voted as expected.
Tauke used Verizon's blog to suggest that the decision was bad for consumers. (Bull, IMHO)
The interaction between the two men not only debates the issue itself but also gives a rare view into the whole FCC experience these days.
Don't forget to click on Tauke's initial post after you arrive at the CableTechTalk blog. But make sure you return to CableTechTalk for the comments where the best line of the exchange was lobbed in by McSlarrow at 8 pm on Friday;
Tom, I just put the kids down after reading them a fairy tale. I should have waited. Could have read them your last post. P.S. Is everyone getting really slow response time, like I am, from Verizon's blog site? Hmmm.
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