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Agenda
The agenda of the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee's (BDAC) first meeting will be to introduce the BDAC members, describe the working groups, assign members to working groups, and begin discussing how to accelerate the deployment of broadband by reducing and/or removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment. The BDAC will also receive a status report from the Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group.
This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the BDAC Chair and the Designated Federal Officer (DFO).
Head of NOAA says 5G deployment could set weather forecasts back 40 years. The wireless industry denies it.
What if, suddenly, decades of progress in weather prediction was reversed and monster storms that we currently see coming for days were no longer foreseeable? The toll on life, property and the economy would be enormous. Yet the government’s science agencies say such a loss in forecast accuracy could happen if the Federal Communications Commission and the US wireless industry get their way. Both the FCC and the wireless industry are racing to deploy 5G technology, which will deliver information at speeds 100 times faster than today’s mobile networks.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will conduct a public forum to examine the USA FREEDOM Act and the government’s call detail records (CDR) program under that law. During the forum, Board Members will hear a range of expert views on the USA FREEDOM Act—from its history and implementation, to present challenges and the path ahead.
The Board will hear from these experts:
“There is an epidemic sweeping the world,” the Nigerian Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said. “It is the epidemic of fake news. Mixed with hate speech, it is a disaster waiting to happen.”
Some argue that the disaster has already happened. But who should decide whether content should be removed from platforms, or which users should be kicked off?
Agenda
Doors open at 8:30 am
9:00 a.m. Welcome
James P. Steyer, Common Sense
9:10-10:00 a.m. Where Do We Start?
Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology
Ellen Pao, Project Include
10:00-10:50 a.m. Putting the Equity in Tech
Maria Alvarez, Common Sense
Kim-Mai Cutler, Initialized Capital
Michelle Hyman, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Shireen Santosham, City of San Jose
Rachael Myrow, KQED
Lost amidst the hype around super-fast 5th Generation (5G) mobile networks is the reality that the next generation of Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 6) is ready now. Wi-Fi 6 is capable of providing gigabit-fast 5G capabilities to consumers and businesses in cities, suburbs, and rural areas far sooner and more affordably than cellular networks. What’s missing is access to the wide channels of public airwaves that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to open for shared, unlicensed use, from 5.9 to 7.2 GHz.
Presidential announcement ignores core question: What is leadership in 5G?
Recently, President Donald Trump and Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai held a news conference to announce “two new steps” that together would position the United States as a leader in deploying 5G wireless networks. There were three distinct problems with the announcement: the steps were not new, they did not advance critical 5G deployments, and they did nothing to help American leadership in driving and benefiting from the next big transition in wireless communications.
House Commerce Democrats Propose $40 Billion for Broadband Buildout In Newest Version of Infrastructure Bill
The week was jam-packed with broadband news [Seriously, see the Quick Bits and Weekend Readsbelow]. There was an oversight hearing of the Federal Communications Commission, Rep.
FCC Annouces Tentative Agenda for June 2019 Open Meeting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the June Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 6, 2019: