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Hearings
Assessing the Communications Marketplace: A View from the FCC
Full Committee

Thursday, February 1, 2007
10:00 AM
SR - 253
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In this hearing, the Commerce Committee will hear from the five Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners on several pending proceedings that address competition in the telecommunications industry. The Commissioners will discuss the state of competition in business and residential communications markets, the impact of structural and technological changes occurring within industry, the availability and affordability of broadband in the United States compared with other industrialized nations, the impact of media consolidation on diversity and localism, the future of universal service, and other major issues and proceedings that the Commission expects to address in the coming year that will affect the communications and media marketplace.

 

Majority Statements
Daniel K. Inouye
John F. Kerry

 

Witnesses

Opening Remarks
The Honorable Jonathan S. Adelstein
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission
The Honorable Deborah Taylor Tate
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Chair, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
The Honorable Robert M. McDowell
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission
Honorable Michael J. Copps
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission
The Honorable Kevin J. Martin
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission


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