Michael K. Powell
Michael K. Powell
Michael Kevin Powellis an American former Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and current president of the trade association the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on November 3, 1997. President George W. Bush designated him chairman of the commission on January 22, 2001. Powell is the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his wife Alma Powell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 March 1963
CountryUnited States of America
Keeping the rules exactly as they are, as some so stridently suggest, was not a viable option, ... Without today's surgery, the rules will assuredly meet a swift death.
The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here.
In simple terms, I think you're going to have lower prices, lower cost networks and 50 times the innovations. Look at Vonage's VoIP service.
Some of these fines are peanuts, ... They're just a cost of doing business. That has to change.
No television event has ever received as many complaints from the American public -- over 540,000 -- as the Super Bowl XXXVIII half-time show produced by CBS, ... Indecency determinations, however, must be made cautiously and with appropriate restraint.
I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.
We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.
You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.
Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation.
It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.
I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.
The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.