<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There has been a lot going on this week, still catching up. Just after this session ended, incoming FCC Chair Ajit Pai <a href="https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/824715342203199489">announced $170m for NY State</a> broadband. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="m_3078474833363062984subscription-body-tag"><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 Thursday January 26 2017 USTelecom - a trade association representing broadband service providers and suppliers - hosted a 'summit' - Broadband First: Investing in America's Infrastructure in Washington DC. Noting President Donald Trump’s “America’s In" </span><table class="m_3078474833363062984subscribe-body" 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 class="m_3078474833363062984subscribe-wrapper" 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 class="m_3078474833363062984subscribe-header-wrap" style="width: 100%; background-image: ; 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 class="m_3078474833363062984the-post" valign="top"><div class="m_3078474833363062984post-content" 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"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.ustelecom.org"><img class="m_3078474833363062984size-full m_3078474833363062984wp-image-8936" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; 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/2017/01/USTelecom.png" alt="" border="0"></a>On <strong>Thursday January 26 2017 <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.ustelecom.org">USTelecom</a></strong> - a trade association representing broadband service providers and suppliers - hosted a 'summit' - <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.ustelecom.org/events-education/executive-education/broadband-first-investing-americas-infrastructure">Broadband First: Investing in America's Infrastructure</a></strong> in Washington DC. Noting President Donald Trump’s “America’s Infrastructure First” policy calling for $1 trillion in new infrastructure investment, participants, including members of President Trump’s transition team, broadband innovators and leading policy experts, focused on the path forward for broadband infrastructure investment and policy. Speakers: <strong>Mark Jamison</strong>, Advisor to the Trump FCC transition team, Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communication, and Technology and the director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida; <strong>Kathleen Abernathy</strong>, Executive Vice President, Frontier; <strong>John Branscome</strong>, Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; <strong>Robert Hunt</strong>, USTelecom Chairman and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Business Operations, GVTC; <strong>David Redl</strong>, Chief Counsel, Communications and Technology, House Committee on Energy and Commerce; <strong>Marty Rubin</strong>, President & CEO, Smart City; <strong>Eric Small</strong>, Vice President, Commercial and MDU Solutions, AT&T; <strong>Jonathan Spalter</strong>, President & CEO, USTelecom. 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"><strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/wOcw69pjFyY">https://youtu.be/wOcw69pjFyY</a></p></div><p class="m_3078474833363062984subscribe-action-links" 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 class="m_3078474833363062984auto-width" style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;co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