Commissioner O'Rielly Remarks Before American Society of Civil Engineers Conference

Unlike many of the distinguished panelists and engineers in this room who will be actively involved in planning and deploying the next-generation networks, smart cities, and connected transportation systems of the future, the Federal Communications Commission’s role is to provide the environment that will allow much of the relevant technology to happen. Key to this is making the necessary resources available to those focused on deployment and ensuring that the regulatory – or, better put, the deregulatory – structure is in place to promote the network construction needed to bring these new, disruptive services to the American consumer.