Sohn Supporters Expect 3rd FCC Nomination Try Soon

Wireless Future Project director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about the potential for the Biden administration to renominate Gigi Sohn for FCC Commissioner sometime in January, with Calabrese emphasizing that Democrats in the Senate need to focus on the importance of a fully functioning Federal Communications Commission if they want to put a stop to the Commission’s frequent deadlocking.

“The number of decisions on circulation will just keep on stacking up and delaying important new uses of spectrum until Congress votes to confirm” Sohn or another fifth commissioner, said New America’s Open Technology Institute Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese. “The FCC should not be so partisan that even seemingly non-controversial rulemakings … are stuck indefinitely [in a 2-2] limbo. But that’s where we are until Democrats in the Senate focus on the importance of a fully functioning FCC.”