We can only have 8 more years of this?

From the article:

Obama "looks at technology as holistic and as a catalyst for job creation, economic development, closing economic divides, clearly a multiplier impact on the economy," he says. "Especially with broadband. And everybody knows he's an enthusiast for the Internet. Why not with 370,000 Internet contributions?"

Hot items to watch include stories we faithfully follow here at Ars: the implementation of the FCC's Order giving the go-ahead to unlicensed white space devices; the AWS-3 band, which Martin presently wants contoured for a national free and smut-free broadband service; and how to finally auction off the 700MHz public safety D Block.

The favored will include Internet portals and application providers ("Google, Yahoo! etc—big winners," Lipman declared). The reason is pretty obvious. Obama is a net neutrality supporter, and observers should expect plenty of proactivity in this area from Obama and Congress, including policies "prohibiting discrimination, prohibiting rationing of capacity," and "prohibiting prioritization of traffic charges." Plus Obama "probably would be skeptical of even bandwidth caps," Lipman speculated.

Anticipate Obama continuing to support the fight to roll back Kevin Martin's relaxation of the FCC's limits on newspaper/TV cross ownership, Lipman predicted, and being skeptical of media consolidation in general. In fact, "I would submit that under an Obama administration some [finalized merger] deals could not have gotten done," he said—XM/Sirius and the AT&T/BellSouth mergers among them.

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