<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;background:#ddd;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666;text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> 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" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;background-color:#43a4d0;height:8px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><img style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid #ccc;" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/energy+commerce.png" alt="Energy + Commerce" border="0">On Wednesday<strong> July 22 2015</strong>, the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/communications-and-technology" tabindex="-1">U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology</a></strong> held a hearing <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/promoting-broadband-infrastructure-investment" tabindex="-1"><em><strong>Promoting Broadband Infrastructure Investment</strong></em></a> 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 <strong>Jonathan Adelstein </strong> of the The Wireless Infrastructure Association (PCIA); <strong>Craig Moffett</strong>, Senior Research Analyst, Moffett Nathanson; <strong>Michael Slinger</strong>, Director, Google Fiber Cities; <strong>Deb Socia</strong>, Executive Director, NextCentury Cities; Hon. <strong>Stephen Roe Lewis</strong>, Governor, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. Video is below</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a class="playable" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDcyTavi2rY?start=263&rel=0" tabindex="-1"><img style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/WDcyTavi2rY/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/WDcyTavi2rY?t=4m23s" tabindex="-1">https://youtu.be/WDcyTavi2rY?t=4m23s</a><br> <strong>Transcribe on AMARA</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ccENhEaKI915/" tabindex="-1">http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ccENhEaKI915/</a><br> <strong>Background memo</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20150722/103745/HHRG-114-IF16-20150722-SD003.pdf" tabindex="-1">http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20150722/103745/HHRG-114-IF16-20150722-SD003.pdf</a><br> <strong>Twitter</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SubCommTech%20%20%23broadband&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets" tabindex="-1">#SubCommTech + #broadband</a></p></div><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#666;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em;padding:0;width:auto;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:0em;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-left:0"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7921#respond" tabindex="-1">Comment</a></td><td>   <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7921#comments" tabindex="-1">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px 0px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</strong></div><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7921" tabindex="-1">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7921</a><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#43a4d0;height:3px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=jetpack.wordpress.com&blog=10787942&post=7921&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0"></div></div><div><br><br></div><div> </div><div class="gmail_signature">-<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span id="gc-number-32" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br><br> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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