FCC Chief Pushes TV Over IP

FCC chairman Michael Powell said tech and telecom companies are racing to develop ways to pipe TV shows into consumers’ homes broadband. “Almost every major phone company I’m aware of has an initiative underway to begin to try to plug the hole with partnerships with satellite-delivered video but what they’re really working on is broadband-delivered IP (Internet protocol) television,” Powell told reporters.

Powell said it was unclear what regulatory obligations such as serving the public interest would apply to television via the Internet, if any.

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