Introduce you to mark jamieson. Fulltime, hes at the university of florida, where hes director of the public Utility Research center, director of the telecommunications study. He was on the president ial Transition Team, focused on telecommunications and the federal Communications Commission. Dr. Jamison, welcome to the communicators. Biographyed in your that you were at one time head of the National Association of regulatory Utility Commissions. What does a regulatory Utility Commission to do . Mark i was the chair of a committee within the National Association, thats a very different thing. It was a subcommittee. What a public Utility Commissioner does in the united they regulate utility. Setting what the Service Quality standards will it focuses on the infrastructure rollout and development. In some instances, it determines how markets will work. Thats basically the job of the utility regulator. That his formal job. I train a lot of people around the world in this, the biggest job i
Communicators. Mark jamison, a visiting scholar at aei, a Net Neutrality. Hes interviewed by Reuters Telecom reporter, David Shepherdson. Take for example what we call fifthgeneration wireless. 5g. It is a technology that we start being rolled out next year and it will be a place for about a decade or so. It very specifically has built into it what they call slices. Each slice can be customized to a particular service or particular customer or a particular edge provider. Whatever it might be, it is designed to do that. That violates that idea of same treatment of bit. Net neutrality is out. Watch the communicators tonight at eight eastern on cspan2. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. And this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to mark jamison. Hes currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise institute but full
Transition team focusing on telecommunication and the federal communications condition. Dr. Jamison, welcome to the communicators. Guest thank you. Host i noted you were head of the National Association of regulatory Utility Commission. What does a regulatory Utility Commission do . Guest well, just a small correction. I was the chair of a commit awithin the National Association of regulatory commissioners within it was a subcommittee actually. Not even a full committee. But what a public Utility Commissioner does in the United States for example and this transfers around the world is they regulate utility. It is the things like setting what the Service Quality standards will be, what the prices will be. Those are the biggest jobs of some countries. It is folks on the infrastructure rollout and development. In some instances it is determined how markets will work. That is basically the job of the utility regulator. That is its formal job. What i also found and i train a lot of people a
That they had a voice. That was my main job. I also advised the chairman on various policy issues and did a good bit of press. I had a variety of jobs. I was at the intersection of press shop and policy shop and stakeholder shop. Kind of a multifaceted job. Do you think you got results . Absolutely. Chairman wheeler was one of the most active chairman in the history of the fcc. And he was only there for three years. Thats remarkable. We did everything. We adopted privacy rules for lasting netiders, neutrality rules, adopted numerous protections for disabled citizens so they could get access to communication, adopted rules that made Public Safety more hearty. Important, we asked restrictions we strengthened the enforcement arm of the agency. The chairman put in charge somebody who really went after folks who broke all the rules. That was critically important. This is about protecting consumers, promoting competition , ensuring fast, fair, and open networks. The new administration is com
We talked with several people who are key voices in Communications Policy and with a government lawyer who combats the use of the internet by terrorists. Host gigi sohn, you recently left the fcc. What was your job there . Guest i was counselor to chairman tom wheeler, and in that role i did a variety of things. My main role was to make sure that stake holders on the other side, be they industry, Public Interest groups, ordinary citizens, knew what was going on in the agency and made sure that they had a voice. So that was my main job. I also advised the chairman on various policy issues. I also did a good bit of press be off the record. So, you know, i had a variety of jobs. I kind of, i was at the intersection of oppress shop and policy shop of press shop and policy shop and stakeholder shop, so kind of a multifaceted job. Host do you think you got results . Guest absolutely. I mean, chairman wheeler was one of the most active chairmen ever in the history of the fcc. And we were only