Senate Preps Telecom Rewrite

SENATE PREPS TELECOM REWRITE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
During a two-week Congressional break earlier this moth, Senate Commerce Committee staffers were busy scrambling drafting the panel's version of telecommunication reform legislation. A vote by the Committee on the bill could come in the next two or three weeks. Considered certain to be in the bill is video-franchising reform, the key provision of the narrower version the House Commerce Committee overwhelmingly passed last week. Also expected to be in the Senate bill is network neutrality, or preventing telcos from discriminating against Internet content providers, although the language is not likely to be as strong as some activists would like. Other provisions likely to be included: municipal broadband (which is also in the House version), universal service, and allowing unlicensed wireless devices to use broadcast spectrum.
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