The Wireless Association (CTIA) would like you to know that it really appreciates all the hard work the FCC has been doing this year on behalf of its clients: AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, and all the other telecom giants.
To commemorate the FCC’s achievements—namely, diminishing its own authority to advocate on behalf of consumers against some of the world’s largest and most powerful companies—CTIA has turned two of its biggest success stories, Republican FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Michael O’Rielly, into marketing props, which you can download or share on social media.
What an honor!
"The @FCC’s reforms are now delivering results. There’s more to do…We’re now heading in the right direction." -Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC during this morning's @SenateCommerce Hearing on FCC Oversight. pic.twitter.com/tzKIVM19UT
— CTIA (@CTIA) June 12, 2019
Thanks, Brendan. And big ups on that award CTIA gave you last month, too.
Commissioner @mikeofcc discusses the importance of securing more #spectrum for #5G deployment, during today's @SenateCommerce Hearing on @FCC Oversight. pic.twitter.com/dDO0iXKNze
— CTIA (@CTIA) June 12, 2019
Keep up the great work, Mike.
Update, 9:15pm: Commissioner Carr has tweeted at me to point out that CTIA also tweet out quotes about 5G spectrum by Democratic Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Jessica Rosenworcel. “I’m sure [you] would never let facts get in way of a narrative,” Nathan Leamer, an FCC policy adviser, told Gizmodo.
Don’t mean to disrupt your narrative here with a few seconds of research, but . . . 👇 https://t.co/TlAjUhOxrI pic.twitter.com/rdWgE5gAEM
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) June 14, 2019
Rosenworcel this week accused the agency of trying to ram through the $26.5 merger deal between Sprint and T-Mobile. Even though her Republican colleagues had already expressed support for the deal publicly, she had not been given access to the economic or legal analysis produced by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s office.
“It looks like some backroom dealing,” she told the Senate Commerce Committee.
Carr and O’Rielly told the committee they hadn’t read the analyses, either. Their support for the merger is a forgone conclusion, nevertheless.
Republican Mike O'Reilly asked by @brianschatz why he tweeted his support of merger if he hasn't read the FCC's internal support yet. 👀
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) June 12, 2019
