Senate Commerce Slates Communications Hearings

The Senate Commerce Committee has slated 14 communications-related hearings for the first three months of 2006 as it prepares to rewrite the Telecom Act of 1996. Subjects include: Decency, Internet Pornography, Video Franchising, Video Content, Competition and Convergence, Broadcast and Audio Flag, Net Neutrality, State and Local Issues and Municipal Networks, USF Contributions, USF Distribution, Wireless Issues/Spectrum Reform, Rural Telecommunications, VOIP, and Wall Street's Perspective on Telecommunications. For dates, times, etc, see http://commerce.senate.gov/
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