Upcoming event
At this meeting, the BDAC will receive status reports and updates from its three working groups: Disaster Response and Recovery, Increasing Broadband Investment in Low-Income Communities, and Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Job Skills and Training Opportunities.
This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the BDAC Chair and the Designated Federal Officer (DFO).
Witnesses:
Mr. Jeffrey Ritter, Founding Chair, American Bar Association Committee on Cyberspace Law; External Lecturer, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science (on research sabbatical)
Mr. Chad Marlow, Senior Advocacy and Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union
Mr. Will Rinehart, Director of Technology and Innovation Policy, American Action Forum
Ms. Michelle Dennedy, Chief Executive Officer, DrumWave Inc.
Join the new Public Knowledge President Chris Lewis and Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld for a Tech Policy Salon.
The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on the subjects listed below on Thursday, December 12, 2019:
Implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018 (WC Docket No. 18-336): The FCC will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would propose to designate 988 as the 3-digit number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the Open FCC Meeting scheduled for Friday, Nov 22, 2019:
Note: This meeting was previously scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 19, 2019. It has been changed to Friday, Nov 22, 2019.
The theme, “Access to Opportunity,” reflects MMTC’s pivotal role as a convenor and a connector that educates and trains diverse communities on law and policy, and access to capital, jobs, and other opportunities available to them in an increasingly digital economy.
Sen Kennedy: Litigation Looms Over Pai's 5G Airwaves Choice
Sen John Neely Kennedy (R-LA), the top Senate appropriator overseeing Federal Communications Commission funding, will bring in FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for a hearing Oct 17 to grill him about whether the agency will run its own, likely slower, auction of the 5G airwaves known as the C-band or, as Sen Kennedy fears, allow the satellite companies holding the spectrum to conduct a private sale. “They say we’ve got to do a private deal because it’ll be faster,” said Sen Kennedy. “You ever heard of courts? Duh, you don’t think anybody’s going to file suit over this?
Witnesses
Panel 1:
The Honorable Ajit Pai
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
Panel 2:
Mr. Tom Schatz
President
Citizens Against Government Waste
Mr. David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance