Upcoming event
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Panelist: Douglas C. Sicker, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chair of the Technical Working Group, BITAG Panelist: Greg White, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs Moderator: Gary Bolton, President & CEO, Fiber Broadband Association |
Additional details (including time) for this hearing will be announced the week before the hearing.
Witnesses
Hon. Jessica Rosenworcel
Chairwoman
Federal Communications Commission
Hon. Brendan Carr
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission
Week before last, there were more independent media voices and less online censorship in Russia than many of us in the West might have imagined. But with every passing day that Russian troops are in Ukraine, it becomes harder for their friends and family back home to access and share independent news of what is happening. The Kremlin has cracked down hard on dissent, the remnants of a free press, and social media platforms it does not control.
What is the state-of-the-art in cable broadband Internet? Is cable broadband as capacious, reliable, secure, sustainable, and scalable as other fiber-based solutions? Panelists will provide insights into the industry’s 10G platform initiative to deliver multigigabit symmetrical capacity, lower latencies, enhanced reliability, and improved security.
Last month, following the signing of the bipartisan infrastructure law in November, the White House released an infrastructure law guidebook. The guidebook is meant to provide information to American communities, so they know what to apply for, who to contact, and how to get ready to rebuild.
This guidebook is a roadmap to the funding available under the law, as well as an explanatory document that shows direct federal spending at the program level.
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Competition, Concentration and Antitrust:
Proposals to fundamentally reform U.S. antitrust law and policy are being advanced not only by antitrust think tanks, but also by antitrust leaders in the Biden Administration and in Congress. These proposals take various forms and are premised on a range of arguments; some ideological, some empirical. |
A three-day event exploring the organized spread of disinformation and strategies to respond to it.
Tennessee is setting out to connect every corner of the state. The State Broadband Director, Taylre Beaty, is working to administer over $400 million of federal funding through the Tennessee Emergency Broadband – American Rescue Plan (TEBF-ARP), and is planning for what will come down the pike with additional federal funding from IIJA. Since the launch in 2018, Tennessee’s broadband program has administered over $120 Million in funding to serve over 140,000 Tennesseans.
A close look at precisely what effect the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) may have on the digital economy, on U.S. innovation in the broadband and tech sectors, and on eradicating the digital divide.