Report lambasts FCC Chairman Kevin Martin

On Tuesday, December 9, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released its majority staff report "on the bipartisan investigation of the FCC's regulatory processes and management practices."

The ARRL story says:
The report - Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin J. Martin - stated that the investigation was prompted "by allegations to the effect that [FCC] Chairman Kevin J. Martin has abused FCC procedures by manipulating or suppressing reports, data and information."

On the subject of BPL it says

Concerning BPL, the report alleges that FCC officials "ignored complaints of radio frequency interference caused by BPL high-speed Internet technology, delayed an enforcement investigation for two years and improperly withheld engineering data regarding BPL from the public."

The report found that in October 2004, as then-Chairman Michael Powell issued his final rule "defining BPL access and setting technical and administrative requirements to protect licensed radio operators from harmful interference," the FCC "withheld from the public certain engineering reports on which it relied in promulgating the rule" from the final rule and order.

Read the full ARRL story at
Congressional Committee Members Release Report Lambasting FCC Chairman Kevin Martin

Report - Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin J. Martin
http://www.arrl.org/news/files/FCC_Report120908.pdf