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September 2019

USTelecom on Impact of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

USTelecom, which represents large and small incumbent telecommunication companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink, supported a report that discusses the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). The report was written by Tony Clark, a former chairman of the North Dakota Public Service Commission and past president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and Monica Martinez, a former Michigan public services commissioner. A current concern expressed by the authors pertains specifically to the price cap carriers

Sponsor 

McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University

Date 
Mon, 09/30/2019 - 17:00 to 18:30

Antitrust has become a hot topic, taking an especially prominent role in the policy debate over the role of large technology companies in our economy, our society, and our daily lives. Proposals are coming from across the political spectrum for ways to regulate how tech platforms handle data and privacy, how they manage controversial content, and how they behave in the marketplace. Antitrust enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad are pursuing investigations and launching policy initiatives to probe large tech firms' competitive behavior.


Chairman Pai Remarks at the National Tribal Broadband Summit

I’m proud to have launched several Federal Communications Commission initiatives to expand broadband access on Tribal lands, which complement the efforts of our federal partners. One new policy I’m particularly excited about will give Tribes priority access to spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band. We removed obsolete restrictions on this band, allowing greater flexibility in how the spectrum can be used. We’re giving rural Indian tribes an exclusive window to obtain this spectrum to serve rural Tribal lands. That’s right.

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