[isoc-ny] VIDEO: House Hearing – Promoting Broadband Infrastructure Investment

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There's plenty of meat in the testimony at this hearing. If there was a
consensus it is that potential new network providers are caught in a
squeeze between high programming costs for their tv offerings, diifficulty
in obtaining rights of way, poles, tower sites (Congresswoman Eshoo
referred to this as "putting socks on an octopus") and scarce/expensive
wireless spectrum. Moffett, in his usual doom and gloom manner, suggested
(in an echo of Susan Crawford) that this favors incumbents, who should be
carefully regulated and, where necessary, subsidized, He predicted that
falling tv revenue would lead to more expensive IP rates  The hearing
focused in some part on one specific underserved area - sparsely populated
Indian reservations. Google's Stringer looked to novel technologies to make
a difference in these regions. If you click thru to YouTube I made a brief
index in the comments.


 joly posted: "On Wednesday July 22 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives
Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
held a hearing Promoting Broadband Infrastructure Investment in Washington
DC. This hearing was intended to update"


[image: Energy + Commerce]On Wednesday* July 22 2015*, the *U.S. House of
Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on
Communications and Technology
<https://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/communications-and-technology>*
held a hearing *Promoting Broadband Infrastructure Investment*
<http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/promoting-broadband-infrastructure-investment>
in Washington DC. This hearing was intended to update the Subcommittee on
the state of broadband deployment today, demand for faster networks,
developments in how broadband infrastructure is planned and funded, and
policies that will help encourage investment in and deployment of broadband
infrastructure. ). Witnesses were *Jonathan Adelstein * of the The Wireless
Infrastructure Association (PCIA); *Craig Moffett*, Senior Research
Analyst, Moffett Nathanson; *Michael Slinger*, Director, Google Fiber
Cities; *Deb Socia*, Executive Director, NextCentury Cities; Hon. *Stephen
Roe Lewis*, Governor, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. Video is below

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDcyTavi2rY?start=263&rel=0>

*View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/WDcyTavi2rY?t=4m23s
*Transcribe on AMARA*: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ccENhEaKI915/
*Background memo*:
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20150722/103745/HHRG-114-IF16-20150722-SD003.pdf
*Twitter*: #SubCommTech + #broadband
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SubCommTech%20%20%23broadband&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets>


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