Upcoming event

As the leading conference on broadband technologies for communities, the Broadband Communities Summit attracts broadband system operators, network builders and deployers of all kinds. Many of the country’s major property owners and real estate developers attend the Summit each year, along with independent telcos and cable companies, municipal and state officials, community leaders and economic development professionals.

An executive session to consider the following nominations:

1. Joseph Simons, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, Chairman Designate
2. Noah Joshua Phillips, of Maryland, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner
3. Christine Wilson, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner
4. Rohit Chopra, of New York, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner

Agenda

How do counties take on broadband planning?

House Commerce Committee will vote on H.R. 4986, FCC Reauthorization Act of 2018

Recently, there have been a series of challenges aimed at “reinvigorating” antitrust enforcement agencies and institutions and calling into question the economic approach to antitrust. The “Hipster Antitrust” movement represents a departure from the longstanding nonpartisan consensus that rigorous economic analysis is a key ingredient to robust competition policy – a consensus that finds its roots in Robert Bork’s, The Antitrust Paradox.

The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition will release a holistic broadband strategy to close the digital divide in rural markets. Particularly timely following the release of the Trump Administration’s infrastructure proposal earlier today, SHLB’s rural broadband strategy will focus on deploying high-capacity broadband “to and through anchors” to the surrounding community through wireless and wireline technologies.

As Americans depend more and more on digital communications and information in their work and daily lives, the challenges of protecting the security of information and resiliency of networks in our technology-driven world keep growing and changing. In February 2013, President Obama signed executive order 13636, which first mandated the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop an approach to combat cybersecurity risks against critical infrastructure.

Contact

Elaine Gardner
DAC Designated Federal Officer
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Disability Rights Office
(202) 418-0581 (voice)
Elaine.Gardner@fcc.gov

Chairman Pai announced that the following items are tentatively on the agenda for the February Open Commission Meeting ...