Reed Hundt on telecom issues:

McCain opposed the goal of connecting all Americans to telephone service, doesn't support having a national broadband policy that provides any way for rural or lower income people to get Internet access, didn't vote for the competition-providing Telecommunications Act of 1996, opposed putting the Internet into every classroom, and never seemed to care about monopoly or duopoly in any communications market. He said he wanted to auction spectrum but didn't vote for the legislation that authorized the FCC to do that. He often said he didn't like broadcasters, but he failed to stop them from postponing the end of analog television (and delaying the follow-on spectrum auction) when he was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

Reed Hundt on alternative energy technology:

the essential government role in promoting solar, wind, geothermal and other non-carbon innovations at least includes (1) tax and spending efforts that help overcome very high early-stage costs in a reliable and significant way coupled with (2) precise and efficient regulatory intervention that provides adequate access to the national electric grid for green technologies. Right now the Senate won't vote for permanent tax credits (or even another temporary renewal) for investment in green technologies, and one wonders why that recalcitrance doesn't draw McCain's wrath, since an investment tax credit is a form of funding the 1,000 flowers.