Incentive Auction Comment Deadline Extension Evidence of FCC Being Run in 'Partisan Manner,' Says Pai Aide
The FCC extended the deadlines for comments on its incentive auction rulemaking to allow commenters to incorporate “lessons learned” from the AWS-3 auction, said a public notice released Wednesday. Comment deadlines are extended to Feb. 13, and replies to March…
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13, the notice said. The extension was requested by CEA, CTIA and TIA. Commissioner Ajit Pai's Chief of Staff Matthew Berry said the deadline extension is an “example of how the Commission is being run in a partisan manner.” Pai asked for an extension of the comment deadline before the commission vote on the item but was “told 'no' in no uncertain terms,” Berry said. “This is just more evidence that the Chairman's office dismisses good ideas out of hand simply because they are offered by Republicans.” Chairman Tom Wheeler's office declined to comment.