FCC Chief Takes On the Pentagon...and DOT, and NOAA, and Energy
- FCC Chair Pai angers fellow Republicans and even the Pentagon
- Some see lax oversight; others say friction’s unavoidable
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In his quest to expand U.S. mobile broadband capacity, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai hasn’t been afraid to anger colleagues in government.
He’s taken on the Pentagon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as the departments of Transportation and Energy. Those agencies have warned that his plans to reallocate spectrum could endanger national security, harm weather forecasts, loosen control of the electrical grid and degrade vehicle safety.