Austin Schlick, General Counsel of the FCC, will join BroadbandUS TV hosts Jim Baller and Marty Stern to discuss the FCC’s case for reclassification of broadband Internet access as a regulated telecommunications service. Julius Knapp, Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, who’s heading up the FCC Technical Advisory Panel on the open Internet, will also join Jim and K&L Gates partner Marc Martin to discuss technical issues surrounding the open Internet debate.
Videos
International Perspectives on the US National Broadband Plan
Video detailing the Broadband Breakfast Club. The site hosting the video describes the event as including “key industry officials and was moderated by Lynn Stanton, Senior Editor, TR Reports.” Any relation of this event to the acclaimed John Hughes coming of age film is tenuous at best.
Broadband, Economic Development, and Job Creation
YouTube Video of Launch of Case Western Reserve’s Gigabit Pilot Project
Retransmission Consent: Time For a Complete Overhaul?
Every season, viewers and sports fans seem to be held hostage to disputes between broadcasters and cable and DBS providers over the terms of carriage of broadcast stations and affiliated programming. Is the must carry/retransmission consent model that underlies these disputes in need of a complete overhaul? This is an especially important question now, because thousands of carriage agreements will be up for renewal this year. This program will examine the real issues underlying retransmission consent disputes and the economics and politics driving these issues.
Jim and Marty on the National Broadband Plan
FOSE is the #1 technology event for government in the nation. FOSE has earned that distinction by bringing together the tools, methods and systems to maintain, protect and modernize the nation’s IT infrastructure for more than three decades.
Broadcast v. Broadband: You Decide
Blair Levin, Executive Director of the FCC’s Omnibus Broadband initiative, will join hosts Jim Baller and Marty Stern to discuss the latest thinking on repurposing broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband as part of the National broadband Plan, and how the idea has evolved since it was raised in late 2009, including the recently proposed “Mobile Future Auction.”
A National Town Hall on the Broadband Stimulus Program
Separate Notices of Funds Availability (NOFA) and programmatic rules have just been released for the second and final round of funding under the Broadband Stimulus with several Billions of dollars in funding available in this last round. Applications for this second round are due in just over a month, on March 15, and this interactive live workshop will provide a first look at what’s changed from the first round and what applicants need to know in putting together successful broadband grant and loan applications.
Jim Baller Interview on C-Span’s “The Communicators”
James Baller, founder of the US Broadband coalition, discusses efforts to lobby Congress and the Administration of President-elect Barack Obama for a National Broadband Strategy. Anne Veigel of Communications Daily, is co-host. Program from Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008.
Video of Call to Action event on Capitol Hill
In an unprecedented display of consensus, a broad and diverse array of groups concerned about America’s broadband future will release a Call to Action that provides President-elect Obama and the incoming Congress a policy framework for a comprehensive national broadband strategy.
Video of New America Foundation event on Capitol Hill
The panelists discussed the policy recommendations of e-NC and other participating organizations and their implications for developing a national broadband strategy to energize high-speed broadband deployment and adoption throughout the U.S.