March 2020

Legislation to Deter Anticompetitive Abuses

Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sens Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced new legislation to deter anticompetitive abuses that distort the competitive process and harm consumers, innovation, and new business formation. The Anticompetitive Exclusionary Conduct Prevention Act prohibits anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that risks harm to the competitive process.

FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for March 2020 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the March Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 31, 2020:

Sponsor: 

Fiber Broadband Association

Date: 
Wed, 03/18/2020 - 18:00

Collaboration among multiple entities is the hallmark of new fiber-to-the-premises initiatives across the country, particularly because federal and state grant programs encourage such collaboration. This webinar will offer insight into the most common of these partnership models: one in which an entity with infrastructure expertise (such as a city or electric utility) builds and maintains the fiber infrastructure, while another entity (this one with operations and service expertise) lights and operates the network.



The Great American Experiment in Remote Learning

Facing the threat of the coronavirus, schools across the country are trying a new experiment in distance learning on a massive scale. Across the country, more than 500 schools with some 360,000 students have closed or are planning to suspend in-person classes. 

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Federal Trade Commission

Date: 
Wed, 03/18/2020 - 14:00 to 22:30

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED

The workshop will be the second in a two-part series hosted together with the Department of Justice. The two workshops will allow for a dynamic discussion about the proposed guidelines to complement the written public comments about the proposed guidelines that were submitted to the agencies.