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Federal
Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin, a
Republican, plans to depart
Tuesday, January 20th, when
President-elect Barack Obama's
administration assumes
power. •••
Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Kevin J.
Martin, a Republican, plans to
depart Tuesday, January 20th,
when President-elect Barack
Obama's administration assumes
power. •••
Martin, 42, said he
would go to the Aspen Institute,
a policy analysis group in
Washington after nearly four
years as head of the independent
agency that regulates telephone,
broadcast and cable
companies. •••
Obama has c hosen
Julius Genachowski, 46, former
FCC chief counsel, to head the
agaency, a Democartic official
said this week. Kevin Jeffrey
Martin (born December 14, 1966)
is the Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission
(FCC).
•
• Martin was
nominated by President George W.
Bush to a Republican seat on the
Commission on April 30, 2001. He
was confirmed on May 25, 2001 and
sworn in on July 3, 2001, to
replace Michael K. Powell.
President Bush renominated Martin
to a new five year term on the
Commission on April 25, 2006, and
he was reconfirmed by the U.S.
Senate on November 17, 2006.
•
•
Before joining the FCC,
Martin was a Special Assistant to
the President for Economic
Policy. He served on the
Bush-Cheney Transition Team and
was Deputy General Counsel for
the Bush
campaign.
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TIMELINE /Kevin
J. Martin, Chairman of the FCC •
1966 -
Kevin J. Martin Born: December 14,
1966, in Charlotte, North Carolina. •
1988 -
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
with Honors and Distinction from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. While at Chapel Hill, Chairman
Martin was elected Student Body President
and President of the North Carolina
Association of Student Governments. In
addition, he also served on the University
Of North Carolina Board Of Trustees. •
1988-
Masters in Public Policy from Duke
University. •
1993 -
J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law
School. Chairman Martin is a member of the
District of Columbia Bar and the Federal
Communications Bar Association. •
1997 -
Law clerk for United States Court
District Judge William M. Hoeveler in
Miami, Florida. •
1997 -
several years of work in private
practice at the Washington, DC law firm of
Wiley, Rein & Fielding. While at
Wiley, Rein & Fielding, he worked on
communications, legislative, and appellate
litigation matters. •
1997-1999
- Chairman Martin served as a Legal
Advisor to FCC Commissioner Harold
Furchtgott-Roth, advising the Commissioner
on telecommunications and broadband
issues. •
1999
- In June, 1999, Martin left the staff
of FCC commissioner Harold
Furchtgott-Roth, to join the Bush
campaign. As an election advisor, he
helped the many Republican lawyers during
the legal battle over the Florida vote
recount.. •
1999
- Served as the Deputy General Counsel
to the Bush campaign in Austin, Texas from
July 1999 through December 2000. •
2000 -
Prior to joining the Bush
Administration, Chairman Martin served as
a principle technology and
telecommunications advisor on the
Bush-Cheney Transition team. He served as
a Special Assistant to the President for
Economic Policy and was on the staff of
the National Economic Council. In that
capacity, he focused primarily on commerce
and technology policy issues. He also
served as the official U.S. government
representative to the G-8's Digital
Opportunity Task Force, a government,
non-profit, and private sector task force
created to identify ways in which the
digital revolution can assure
opportunities for developing
countries. •
2001 -
April 30, 2001: Kevin J. Martin
was nominated by President George W. Bush
to a Republican seat on the Federal
Communications Commission on April 30,
2001.
•
May 25, 2001: Confirmed.
•
July 3, 2001:
Sworn in.
•
August 8, 2001: Commissioner Kevin J.
Martin has appointed Ginger Clark and
Dolly Johnson to his permanent staff as
Confidential Assistant and Staff
Assistant, respectively. Commissioner
Martin announced the appointment of Sam
Feder, David Brown, and Monica Shah Desai
as interim legal advisors, who will serve
until the Commissioner completes the
selection of permanent legal advisors.
•
September 13, 2001: Commissioner Kevin J.
Martin has appointed Catherine Crutcher
Bohigian to serve as his Legal Advisor on
cable and mass media issues. •
2005 -
March 18, 2005, Kevin J. Martin was
designated FCC chairman by President
George W. Bush to replace Michael K.
Powell. •
2006 -
April 25, 2006, Martin was
re-nominated for a second term as
commissioner and chairman by President
George W. Bush.
• June 1, 2006 Robert M. McDowell was
sworn in by Chairman Kevin J. Martin as a
member of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for a term that runs
until June 30, 2009. He was unanimously
confirmed by the U.S. Senate. This
appointment gives the Republican party 3
&endash;2 voting control amongst the FCC
Commissioners. •
2007 -
February 23, 2007, FCC Chairman Kevin
J. Martin announced "his intention to
appoint" Derek Poarch, a North Carolina
police chief, as the FCC's first Public
Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
Chief. •
2007 -
September 11, 2007, The Federal
Communications Commission voted
unanimously to require cable systems
nationwide to deliver hundreds of local TV
stations in analog and digital formats to
their customers for three years, after all
full-power stations shut off their analog
broadcasts. The requirement to carry TV
stations' primary programming service in
both formats starts in early 2009 and
lasts until 2012. Moments earlier, the
agency voted, again unanimously, to
mandate that all multichannel-video
providers have access to many programming
networks affiliated with cable providers
until October 2012. The FCC said cable's
satellite and telephone TV rivals would
suffer without marquee programmers such as
HBO, CNN and E! Entertainment
Television. •
2007 -
September 19, 2007 Kevin Martin has
named Dana Shaffer, new chief of the
Wireline Competition Bureau. She's a
veteran communications lawyer from
Tennessee who has held key staff positions
with Republican FCC members Deborah Taylor
Tate and Robert McDowell. •
2008 -
He currently resides in Washington, DC
with his wife, Catherine Jurgensmeyer
Martin, and his sons Luke and William.
SEE
Biography of FCC Chairman Kevin J.
Martin •
2009 -
Kevin J. Martin, departs as
Head of the FCC, Tuesday, January 20th,
when President-elect Barack Obama's
administration assumes power. •••
Martin, 42, said he would go to
the Aspen Institute, a policy analysis
group in Washington after nearly four
years as head of the independent agency
that regulates telephone, broadcast and
cable companies. •••
Obama has c hosen Julius
Genachowski, 46, former FCC chief counsel,
to head the agaency, a Democartic official
said this week.
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Remarks
of FCC Chairman
Kevin
J. Martin at CTIA Wireless
2008•• And, as of May 2007,
approximately 82 percent of the U.S.
population lived in an area of the country
covered by at least one of these mobile
broadband
networks.
• •
• In addition, as of December
31, 2006, there were 22 million mobile
wireless devices capable of accessing the
Internet at broadband speeds in use in the
United States, up from only three million
the year before.
• •
• We've also seen the
introduction of innovative new products
during the past year, such as the iPhone,
which is truly a handheld mobile computer.
The iPhone can seamlessly connect to any
Wi-Fi hot spot for Internet access
service. And almost two million iPhones
have been activated on AT&T's
network.
• •
Importantly, competition in the
wireless industry has also led to lower
prices, higher usage and adoption rates,
and technological innovation. And many of
you in this room have been instrumental in
bringing the benefits of competition to
American consumers. Your contributions to
improving wireless services for the
American consumer have not gone
unnoticed.
• •
The FCC has an important role to
play in this mobile revolution as
well.
• •
During my tenure as Chairman, the
FCC has made vast amounts of spectrum
available for the next generation of
innovative wireless services. Since 2006,
we have more than doubled the amount of
spectrum previously made available for
mobile wireless services.
• •
Most recently, the Commission
auctioned spectrum in the 700 MHz band.
The sheer size of the 700 MHz Auction is a
harbinger of the benefits to come. The
Auction was the largest in FCC history and
raised a record $19.592 billion in total
bids.
• •
Even in a difficult economic
climate, revenues raised in this auction
easily exceeded congressional estimates of
about $10 billion &endash; nearly doubling
the amount Congress had anticipated would
be raised. •
• • The Auction drew
wide-ranging interest from a number of new
players. A bidder other than a nationwide
incumbent won a license in every
market.
• •
• 99 bidders, other than the
nationwide wireless incumbents, won 69
percent of the 1,090 licenses sold in the
auction.
• •
• And small businesses had
success in the auction as well. 55 percent
of the winning bidders in the auction
claimed designated entity bidding credits
as small businesses. These bidders won 379
(or 35 percent) of the nearly 1,100
licenses auctioned.
• •
I believe the 700 MHz auction has
the potential to transform broadband in
the same way that the PCS auction
transformed voice services 10 years ago
&endash; by injecting much-needed
competition, fostering innovation, and
taking broadband mobile.
• •
These developments will enable the
U.S. to leap ahead in broadband deployment
and spread the benefits of broadband to
all consumers. Americans living in rural
and remote areas will be able to access
the full range of content and applications
available in most urban areas. And
consumers everywhere will be able to
access the Internet wirelessly from any
location, at speeds that rival today's DSL
and cable.
• •
Although initially opposed by the
industry, the Commission also worked to
create a more open platform on a portion
of the 700 MHz spectrum. The Commission
was determined to ensure that the fruits
of wireless innovation swiftly pass into
the hand of consumers. A network that is
more open to devices and applications can
help foster innovation on the edges of the
network. As important, it will give
consumers greater freedom to use the
wireless devices and applications of their
choice when they purchase service.
• •
I believe that putting these
choices into the hands of consumers,
rather than network operators, will spur
the next phase of wireless broadband
innovation &endash; innovation that can
make us more productive, keep us
entertained, and improve our quality of
life.
• •
When adopting the open platform
requirement in the 700 MHz band, we saw it
as a rare chance to promote innovation and
consumer choice while writing on a clean
slate. We targeted only one block of the
spectrum. And since I have been Chairman,
I have opposed applying network neutrality
obligations with mandatory unbundling or
wholesale requirements to networks that
would undermine investment incentives.
This careful balancing of spurring
innovation and consumer choice while
encouraging infrastructure investment is
critical to the wireless industry's
continued impressive growth.
• •
And what we have observed since the
adoption of our 700 MHz rules is quite
outstanding. The requirement for open
access in the 700 MHz auction is leading
carriers to recognize the benefits of a
more open platform.
• •
In fact, in less than a year, many
of you have evolved from vocal opponents
to vocal proponents, embracing the open
platform concept for your entire
networks.
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has committed to open its entire network
to devices and applications of consumers'
own choosing.
• •
More and more wireless providers,
including T-Mobile and Sprint through
their participation in the Open Handset
Alliance, and AT&T, are also embracing
more openness in terms of devices and
applications. Indeed, in looking at the
program for this conference, I was excited
to see a number of educational sessions
and panels focusing on the issue of
openness. This interest now appears to be
shared across the industry.
• •
In light of the industry's embrace
of a more open wireless platform, it would
be premature to adopt any other
requirements across the industry. Thus,
today I will circulate to my fellow
commissioners an order dismissing a
petition for declaratory ruling filed by
Skype that would apply Carterfone
requirements to existing wireless
networks.
• •
But, unfortunately, our work in the
700 MHz band is not done. Let me also
touch upon the Commission's commitment to
public safety in the 700 MHz band. Meeting
the needs of public safety is critically
important.
• •
During a crisis, public safety
officials need to be able to communicate
with one another. We are all aware of
problems caused by the lack of
interoperability for public safety during
recent crises &endash; like 9/11 and
Hurricane Katrina.
• •
I believe the Commission remains
committed to ensuring that we work to
solve public safety's interoperability
challenges. Because the reserve price for
the D Block was not met in the 700 MHz
auction, the FCC is now evaluating its
options for this spectrum.
• •
In conclusion, let me say that, at
the Commission, our job is to provide
ample spectrum for a range of wireless
services and a regulatory framework that
allows you &endash; the entrepreneurs,
engineers, and network operators of the
world to provide lower prices, better and
more innovative services, and more choice
to wireless consumers. •
• At the same time, we also
must ensure that our regulations continue
to protect consumers in this new, more
mobile world. Indeed, in some ways the
wireless industry is a victim of its own
success. Because with increased success
often comes increased expectations.
• •
Today, to your credit, wireless is
no longer seen as a luxury, but as a vital
means of everyday communication. And the
public has growing expectations of how
they will be able to use wireless to meet
their everyday needs. For example, E911
ensures that when someone dials 911 during
an emergency, public safety can easily and
reliably find them. To achieve that goal,
we need to ensure that our enhanced 911
rules provide meaningful automatic
location information that permits first
responders to reliably find them.
• •
We all know that people are relying
on cell phones for more and more of their
calls, including calls to 911. CTIA
estimates that since the 1996
Telecommunications Act, 911 calls placed
annually from wireless phones have
increased six fold (from 55,000 to
290,000). The advances in wireless
technology allow people to call for help
more quickly and from more remote places
than ever before. We need to make sure
that our location accuracy requirements
keep apace with these changes so that
consumers can take advantage of all the
opportunities wireless technology has to
offer.
• •
I believe this is an opportunity
for the wireless industry and a harbinger
of even more success. In the end, I am
confident the wireless industry will rise
to the occasion and I look forward to
working with you and my fellow
commissioners on this critical public
safety issue.
• •
Thank you for your time today. I
truly appreciate the invitation to be
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Cable •
•
It was reported by Ted Hearns of
Multichannel Industry News in December
2007, -- only someone like - Washington
D.C.'s super lobbyist Eddie Fritts gets to
take a few cost-free shots at Federal
Communications Commission chairman Kevin
Martin, who, as the cable industry knows
all too well, isn't afraid of playing by
north Jersey mob rules when shown up in
public.
•
•Fritts -- former boss of the
National Association of Broadcasters now
running his own firm -- gave it his best
shot Wednesday night at a roast in
Martin's honor attended by 1,500 lawyers,
lobbyists, and others who routinely seek
favors from the national media regulator.
The evening is officially known as the
annual FCC Chairman's Dinner, organized by
the Federal Communications Bar Association
to raise money for charitable
causes. •
•Martin got to return fire later
&endash; but instead of putting Fritts in
his place, Martin at times opted to poke
fun at cable and other industries within
his regulatory
orbit.
•
•In his trademark Mississippi
drawl, Fritts reeled off a bunch of
one-liners, including a few aimed at
Martin's youthful
appearance.
•
•"I've known Kevin since he was
25 years old and looking 12 years old.
Let's be honest, Kevin looks so young even
Mark Foley would throw him back," Fritts
said, referring to the disgraced House
Republican from Florida who had to resign
over scandalous text messages exchanged
with young
boys.
•
•Pausing between cracks to let
the crowd settle down in the giant
ballroom of the Washington Hilton, Fritts
also reminded everyone of Martin's ongoing
"war" with the cable industry. He
collected more groans than laughs by
linking Sen. Larry Craig's (R-Idaho)
airport bathroom arrest to Martin's demand
that cable had met the so-called 70/70
test in federal
law.
•
•"You know, a lot of people
think 70/70 gives Kevin a mandate on a la
carte. Not true. The only one is
Washington who has a mandate is Larry
Craig," Fritts
said.
•
•Fritts referred to the recent
news that Energy and Commerce Committee
chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is
investigating Martin's management of the
agency. Martin got word in a letter from
Dingell &endash; a missive famously known
in Washington telecom circles as a
"Dingell-gram."
•
•"I spoke to Kevin on Monday and
asked if he had recently received a
Dingell-gram," Fritts began. "He said,
`Yes.' I asked if it hurt and he
responded, 'Yes.' And he also recommended
that all men over age 50 get a
Dingell-gram at least once a
year." •
•When it was Martin's turn, he
started off with a little humility about
his defeat to the cable industry last
Tuesday on the matter of how big cable had
grown.
•
•"I recognize that I've brought
some of my recent problems on myself --
for example, my cable choice proposal, you
know, the one where cable gets to choose
to do whatever I say. That may not have
been my best idea," Martin
quipped.
•
•At one point, Martin asked all
cable lobbyists in the room to raise their
hands. "I want to start out by apologizing
that we had to remove the knives from your
table," he
said.
•
•Martin suggested that cable
opened its checkbook to defeat his
anti-cable
initiatives.
•
•"I don't know how much money
the cable industry has spent but I do know
that if our country goes into a recession,
it won't be my fault," he
said.
•
•Martin also used Comcast
chairman and CEO Brian Roberts as a foil
in a gag about people who complain that
Martin laced one of his public statements
with the
F-word.
•
•"But not everyone was so
critical," Martin said. "Brian Roberts
called and suggested I do my own show on
leased access channels. I told him that's
way too expensive. Then I thought, `Maybe,
I can fix that," Martin said, referring to
last Tuesday's ruling to slash leased
access rates by
70%.
•
•Martin cracked that he would
call his program the "That 70/70 Show" and
his first episode "Cooking the
Numbers."
•
•Martin concluded with a wacky
top 10 list of predictions for the
upcoming 700 MHz spectrum
auction.
•
•Following the auction, he said:
AT&T will say the auction results
prove that network neutrality is not
necessary. Google will say the outcome
proves network neutrality is necessary.
NAB will say the auction shows that the
XM-Sirius merger should not be
approved.
•
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