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March 22nd, 2013: on this day in Verge history.
President Obama’s first FCC chief, Julius Genachowski, stepped down after a bruising years-long battle with ISPs over his 2010 net neutrality regulations. He then notably broke tradition by joining a private equity firm instead of immediately going to work for Comcast.
Not everybody got what they wanted during his tenure, but at least back then we had a fully functional agency that could accomplish things like blocking the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Consolidation is back on the menu!
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