All Eyes On NTIA, RUS, and FCC: Who Will Lead US?
Of the three agencies charged with implementing the broadband-related provisions of the stimulus bill -- the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, and the Rural Utilities Service at the Department of Agriculture -- none of them have had their leaders officially installed yet. And in fact for the NTIA and RUS, which have been given the most money, we don't even have any good rumors to go on yet. At the FCC Julius Genachowski has been all but confirmed as the new chairman, but even there we still have three seats not yet defined. How can we expect whoever does come into power to be able to make decisions quickly on how to spend all this money when they're still learning where the bathrooms are?
All Eyes On NTIA, RUS, and FCC: Who Will Lead US?