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Agenda at FCC Depends On Powers of Persuasion

Arshad Mohammed writes in The Washington Post:

In the nine months since he became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin J. Martin has pushed through a series of decisions that have made the country's largest phone companies even bigger and, in the view of critics, made it harder for smaller companies to compete with them.

On three major mergers and a string of regulatory decisions, he has persuaded a divided FCC to vote unanimously, testimony to political skills that observers say far outstrip those of his predecessor, Michael K. Powell.

posted by Fergie @ 12/23/2005 06:00:00 AM