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TPRC Program 2003 |
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2003 Program
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Friday, September
19, 2003 |
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Registration |
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2:00 pm |
Panels |
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Renegotiating the Federal-State Government Relationship for Regulating Telecommunications in the U.S. |
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Deregulatory policies in the U.S. are disrupting the traditional structure of shared federal-state governmental regulation of telecommunications and electricity industries. These policy shifts are altering federal-state regulatory relationships and posing new challenges for federal-state regulatory coordination. Recent events have also demonstrated the vulnerability, importance and interdependence of the telecommunications and electricity infrastructures in the U.S. This panel of federal and state regulators will discuss the difficulties they face in implementing recent policy changes, particularly the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and changes that may be required for economically viable and reliable telecommunications networks in the U.S. |
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Panelists: |
Pat Wood
FERC Chairman |
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Jonathan Adelstein
FCC Commissioner |
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Robert Nelson
Michigan PSC Commissioner |
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Wireless ISP's - Third Pipe to the
Home? |
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Great attention is being poured on "third pipe
to the home" solutions for Internet over broadband. The FCC is
aggressively revisiting spectrum policy searching for means of
pushing more useable airwaves into the hands of service providers.
Wireless ISPs, for their part, are an exploding industry
provisioning broadband in rural communities beyond where
incumbents fear to tread, and also in markets where incumbents
tread and WISPs offer affordable and flexible bypass solutions. Antennas are sprouting up about the country on grain silos and
town pumping stations. This panel will be comprised of leaders in
the WISP industry offering perspective on Wireless Internet
deployment and the future of the industry. This panel is a follow
up on the FCC's Sept 18 Rural Wireless Internet Showcase. |
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Moderator:
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Gene
Crick
Executive Director, TeleCommunity Resource Center |
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Panelists: |
Marlon
Schaffer
Owner, Odessa Office Equipment |
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Michael
Anderson
President, PDQLink |
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Andrew
Kreig
President, Wireless Consumers Alliance |
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Kenneth
Carter
FCC Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis |
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4:00 pm |
Consolidation and Competition: Economic Policymakers from the
Administration |
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This panel will feature the chief economists of the FCC and DOJ
Antitrust Division discussing the economic views of the impact and
approaches to analyzing consolidation and competition the
communications arena. The recent FCC decision on media
concentration (and congressional action), rumored mergers among
different telecommunications firms and questions about the
interaction of regulation and competition policy should provide
plenty of ammunition for the administration's policymakers. |
Moderator:
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Greg
Rosston
Stanford University |
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Panelists: |
Patrick
DeGraba
Senior Economist, FTC
former Deputy Chief Economist, FCC |
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David
Sibley
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ |
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Simon
Wilkie
Chief Economist, FCC |
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Academics to Academics: Higher Education CIOs Discuss
Network Initiatives |
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University Chief Information Officers and Campus
Network Administrators will discuss the latest IT and networking initiatives
and how your research can help educate policymakers on their value to society
and the need for federal investment. The policy challenges involved with
the building and daily running of stable, robust, higher-education information
networks will also be discussed. |
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Gary Bachula
Vice President for External Relations,
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Christopher Peabody
Director, Network and
Computing Services, Georgetown University |
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Carl
Whitman
Executive Director, E-Operations, American University |
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| 5:00
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Reception |
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| 6:30
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Dinner |
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Welcome: |
Robert Cannon, TPRC Program Committee Chair |
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Benjamin Compaine, TPRC Board Chair |
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Mark Grady, Dean George Mason University Law School |
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| 7:30 pm |
Keynote: |
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Introduction |
Prof. Lee McKnight, Syracuse University |
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Speaker |
Harrison "Lee" Rainie,
Director |
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Pew Internet & American Life Project |
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Saturday,
September 20, 2003 |
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| 8:00
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Continental Breakfast
and Registration |
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8:30 am |
Sessions: |
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Broadband Policy |
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Internet Interconnection and Telecom Access |
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Community Networks and the Digital Divide
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Information Policy |
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| 10:10 am |
Coffee
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10:40 am |
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Spectrum Policy |
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Telecommunications Act
Revisited |
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Broadband
in Developing Regions |
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Issues of
Identity, Authentication, and Authorization in Privacy |
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12:20 pm |
Lunch and Plenary
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Andrew
Schwartzman and Randolph May |
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The FCC's Media Ownership Ruling
Reconsidered |
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brings together two vocal players in the ongoing debate about the
FCC's controversial media ownership rules. Join Andrew
Schwartzman of the Media Access Project and Randolph May
of the Progress & Freedom Foundation for a lively discussion on the
merits and consequences of the FCC's June vote. |
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Student Paper Awards |
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| 2:00
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Sessions:
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Spectrum
Policy: Unlicensed |
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Competition Policy 1 |
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SPECIAL PANEL - Telemedicine, Online Education and e-Government:
Linking Barriers and proposed Policy Initiatives |
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Copyright and Communications
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3:40 pm |
Coffee
Break |
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4:10 pm |
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SPECIAL PANEL - Spectrum Auctions with Package Bidding |
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Competition Policy 2 |
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SPECIAL PANEL - Game-Changing
Technologies and their Policy Implications |
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Internet
Governance |
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| 5:30
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Reception |
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| 6:30
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Dinner |
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7:30 pm |
Speaker |
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Telecommunications Meltdown |
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For several decades, US policy in telecommunications and electronic
mass media focused on the encouragement of competition. What
has been the impact of this policy? A recent academic project
has focused on one dimension: the impact of liberalization on
competitive market structure. This question has acquired some
urgency in light of the recent meltdown in the telecom sector.
As instability becomes part of the environment, what will telecom
companies do? This session will begin with the academics
presenting the results of a recent project that examined the
liberalization of competitive market structure and its impact on the
recent telecommunications industry meltdown. Then, a panel of
select industry representatives would give their reaction and
response. |
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Panelists: |
Eli Noam |
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Jim
Alleman |
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Larry
Strickling |
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Bob Blau |
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Mike
Nelson |
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George
Vradenburg |
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Social Event |
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 |
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| 8:00
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Continental Breakfast
and Registration |
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8:30 am |
Sessions: |
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Issues in
Wireless Communications |
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Standards |
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Security:
Natural Experiments and Policies to Motivate Improved Security |
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Regulation of Online Activity |
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| 10:10
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Coffee
Break |
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10:40 am |
Sessions: |
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Broadband
Deployment |
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Mass Media |
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User
Studies |
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Internet
Regulatory Approaches |
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11:45 am |
Conference Adjournment |
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