Upcoming event

On April 2, 2020, the FCC issued a Report and Order (FCC-20-44) establishing the COVID-19 Telehealth Program and adopting the Connected Care Pilot program. The COVID-19 Telehealth Program will provide $200 million in funding, appropriated by Congress as part of the CARES Act, to help health care providers provide connected care services to patients at their homes or mobile locations.

Local journalists and news organizations are providing communities with accurate, life saving, local information in the age of coronavirus. Journalists are guiding residents in everything from where to go to get tested, to where to get food for their families, to what hours grocery stores and government offices are operating. If you believe communities must continue to receive this critical information, join the Knight Foundation for a conversation on supporting your local news organization. There is a key opportunity coming up next month on Giving Tuesday.

A live, virtual event on COVID-19's impact on education. We will unpack how the homework gap manifests in middle America and nationally, looking at communities and the creative solutions surfacing across the nation.  

Axios Co-founder & CEO Jim VandeHei and Cities Correspondent Kim Hart will host conversations with: 

The Honorable Laura Kelly

Governor, Kansas 

Ajit Pai
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Sal Khan
Founder & CEO, Khan Academy

Local journalism has long faced challenges to its survival, and the COVID-19 pandemic presents a new threat of extinction. But, it’s one of our most essential resources, especially in the fight to counter misinformation online.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the July Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 16, 2020:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the June Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2020:

Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Final Auction Procedures – The FCC will consider a Public Notice that would establish procedures for the Phase I auction of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (Auction 904), awarding up to $16 billion in support over 10 years for deployment of broadband services in unserved areas. (AU Docket No. 20-34, WC Docket Nos. 19-126, 10-90)

Agenda

1. Transitioning the 900 MHz Band to Enable Broadband Deployment
   The Commission will consider a Report and Order that would realign the 900 MHz band to create a new six megahertz broadband segment to support the growing technological needs of our nation’s industries, while reserving the remaining four megahertz of the band for narrowband operations. (WT Docket No. 17-200)

Andrew Dugan, Chief Technology Officer at CenturyLink in a conversation with USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter on internet network performance during the COVID-19 emergency. Even as network traffic has greatly increased, America’s networks continue to manage this increase with little disruption to network applications. Learn how the networks and technologies supporting them are designed, engineered and managed to accommodate COVID-19 usage changes so we can continue to connect, work, learn and watch while at home.

This past year saw an increasing number of jurisdictions around the world opening investigations or taking enforcement actions involving Big Data. Has data become the new oil that drives the global economy? Is Big Data no longer just the province of consumer protection? What role should data play in antitrust analyses of mergers or business conduct? What role should antitrust have in regulating Big Data?

SESSION CHAIR / MODERATOR

Ankur KAPOOR / Constantine Cannon LLP, New York, NY