In fact, if you didn’t know that the FCC has announced its effort to resolve its own laws about internet admittance “restoring internet freedom,” you could well have convened within the keynote and never known that Pai holds in his support the future way of the internet in the United States.
“The FCC is currently considering whether to change the regulations,” he noted. “The CTIA has stated its cares about them … there have held a lot of reasons … but we shouldn’t view it in solitude, it’s just part of a broad strategy … for developing next-generation networks.”
And then he passed on to talking about spectrum.
The novel thing is that while Pai is reasonably nervous about even speaking the words “network neutrality” given the large and popular support for the concept even at the Mobile World Congress the rest of his keynote showed something interesting and worrying.
The chair of the FCC doesn’t actually know anything regarding the internet.
That may look like a crazy statement, given that the internet is by far the critical and important communications network of the present era and that Pai will especially be deciding how it will be defined in law later this year.
But completely the course of his keynote, it became clear that Pai a permanent mobile industry staffer understands the internet individually into the lens of mobile networks.
Admittedly, he was on scene at the Mobile World Congress, but the distinction between when he was speaking about mobile networks and considering anything else was jarring.
Pai opened his essence talking about how wireless interfaces had saved the day in Texas with the recent storms. Just five per cent of cell sites went down giving much-needed communication to people trapped and struggling.
He then started on an illustration of how the first iPhone was not in itself a victory because it didn’t offer 3G data. And then some specific facts about mobile markets: the rise in customer demand, the growing usage of mobile data, the cost per megabyte, the speeds of LTE.
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