Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 01:12 GMT From: "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: The FCC Says it Wants to Hear From You! Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 422, Message 2 of 11 Lines: 41 The June 1 issue of TE&M has an interesting article on page 18; one that indicaes a route that might be useful to suffering sole practitioner consultants who need some recognition. It goes as follows: "FCC COURTING VIEWS FROM NON-D.C. PLAYERS "The FCC's first look at `Networks of the Future' won't be it's last, according to Office of Plans and Policy Chief Robert Pepper, who is considering how commissiners can get more regular contact with telecom industry players whose jobs are not wooing Washington. "The commission had an _en_banc_ hearing last month where technicians and users described how the telecommunications network will develop, which communications products consmuers want, and what innovative projects are underway. Overriding thems were the increasingly blurry lines among voice, data, broadcast, cellular andother communications technologies, and the need for an applications platform similar to that in the computer industry, so vendors and users who plug into network are assured of uniform specifications. "Pepper says commissioners want to hear more from network users in the field and especially on ideas about specific applications. His office is considering ideas for regular contact between the FCC and the world outside the Capital Beltway. "He agrees that tecnology is blurring the distinction among communications media, but doesnot see a massive FCC reorganization as a result. He concludes however, that the commission `must be flexible enough to make changes along with technology, including better work across traditional bureau boundaries." --------------- ...This certainly should be an opportunity for anyone with the gumption to write a letter to Pepper at the FCC's M Street address.