Prepared Remarks of FCC Commissioner Clyburn at the Rural Wireless Association Summit

Even as technology evolves to spur new business models, I believe that these four core principles of our national's communications policy remain in style: competition, public safety, consumer protection, and universal service.

Competition: In order to promote competition in the wireless market , the most important thing the Federal Communications Commission can do, is enable investment and innovation in the deployment of commercial networks.
Public Safety: I want to thank the Rural Wireless Association and smaller wireless carriers for your advocacy in the public safety proceeding, to promote wireless location accuracy.
Consumer Protection: In the area of consumer protection, perhaps the most significant thing we undertook this year was to adopt the Open Internet Order.
Universal Service: I strongly supported the creation of the first universal service fund dedicated to mobility, to ensure that consumers in all regions of this nation, have access to mobile broadband services, reasonably comparable to what we have in urban areas.