He was the opposite in the recent times. Unlike any of his predecessors, he pushed a tremendous amount of consumer friendly policies and curbed monopolistic abuses of incumbents. He failed to repeal anti-competitive local state laws which ban municipal Internet, but he managed to pass Net Neutrality rules.

It would be a pity if all that effort will be dismantled by corrupted commissioners backed by monopolists who hate competition and progress.

I've covered a lot of Tom Wheeler's work in the last few years. He's probably the best FCC head in the past two decades. If he had a rep previously for being an industry shill, he blew it out of the water in his three years at the helm.

(Meanwhile, Michael Powell made the opposite move: He's currently in charge of the cable industry group.)

This was poorly reported. Wheeler was a cable industry shill over three decades ago when cable was an innovative underdog being oppressed by the broadcast establishment.

Don't worry I got your sarcasm. (For those with short memories, when he was appointed everyone was up in arms because he used to be the CEO of CTIA. Which was a fair enough concern I think, but it turned out he was great in the end.)

He's the lobbyist-turned-consumer-advocate. He has done an incredible number of really good things to protect consumer rights and interests, much to the chagrin of communication conglomerates.

Everything is relative. He actually wasn't that bad for being an industry shill. The next commissioner will be worse (for consumers).