Upcoming event

As we follow the recommendations for physical distancing, the importance of online connectivity increases. Schools and universities have moved to distant learning, telework has become the norm for many industries and workers, and essential public and government services have moved online.  Yet millions of Americans, disproportionately low income households, senior citizens, communities of color and rural Americans, don't have access to or can't afford needed broadband Internet connections.

The FCC is responsible for managing and licensing the electromagnetic spectrum for commercial and non-commercial users. When this project was first known as the Education Broadcast Service (EBS) spectrum, the 2.5GHz plan was underutilized, resulting in a recall and subsequent auctioning to the highest bidder.

This presentation will explore some of the legal and regulatory issues posed by local broadband initiatives and public-private partnerships.

Jim Baller, President of Baller Stokes & Lide / President of Coalition for Local Internet Choice; Michael Watza, Partner, Kitch Drutchas Wagner et al/General Counsel to PROTEC.

At this meeting, the TAC will hear presentations from its four working groups: 5G/IOT/V-RAN, Future of Unlicensed Operations, Artificial Intelligence, and 5G Radio Access Network Technology.

This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the TAC Chair and the Designated Federal Officer (DFO).

In Mozilla v. FCC, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s 2018 Restoring Internet Freedom Order in which the current Commission rejected the Obama Administration’s 'net neutrality' efforts to impose legacy common carrier regulation on the Internet and returned broadband Internet access service to a “light touch” regulatory regime under Title I of the Communications Act.  Mozilla was not a complete victory for the Commission, however.  Not only did the D.C.

A teleconference forum with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph J. Simons to discuss critical consumer protection issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are seeing increasing numbers of pandemic response plans that rely on a combination of ramped up coronavirus testing and contact tracing to detect the people who need to be isolated and permit others to begin to return to life as normal. In this age of big data, these proposals seek to combine traditional public health contact tracing with digital tools.

Nomination

Mr. Michael Pack, of Maryland, to be Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcasting Board of Governors for the term of three years.

Facts, fantasy, political fights or propaganda? The constant news and social media onslaught exploding on the internet can make it difficult to tell one from the other. Join us as we discuss why disinformation and superstition flourish in times of plague, and look at the present moment in the media through the lens of the history and literature of plagues past, from "The Decameron" to today.