-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Openspectrum] US Senate hearing today on spectrum reform and license exempt use of TV band Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:16:53 +0100 From: "Robert Horvitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Open Spectrum International To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/os-info/news-mar06-009.html US Senate hearing today on wireless issues and spectrum reform The Commerce Committee of the US Senate will hold hearings today (14 March) on wireless issues and spectrum reform. Starting at 10 a.m. East Coast Time (1500 GMT), video coverage of the hearings will be streamed live at http://commerce.senate.gov/live.ram. For those who can attend the hearings in person, they will be in Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, which occupies the block bounded by Constitution Avenue, Second Street, First Street, and C Street in Washington, DC (Northeast). Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens recently introduced legislation (S.2332: "The American Broadband for Communities Act of 2006") to "allow manufacturers to design unlicensed devices to be operated in the broadcast spectrum not being used by broadcasters... [and it] also directs the Federal Communications Commission [to] craft technical requirements for unlicensed devices in the broadcast band that would protect broadcast stations..." [quoted from the news release announcing the bill] This legislation, and a similar bill introduced by Senators George Allen and John Kerry (S.2327: "The Wireless Innovation Act of 2006"), are likely to be the hearing's main focus. The announced witnesses are: * Ms. Catherine W. Seidel - Acting Chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau * Mr. John M. R. Kneuer - Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce * Ms. JayEtta Hecker - Director of the Physical Infrastructure Team, US Government Accountability Office * Mr. Thomas F. Walsh - President of the Board, Rural Cellular Association * Dr. Kevin Kahn - Director of the Communications Technology Lab, Intel Corporation * Mr. Robert W. Hubbard - Secretary and Treasurer, Association for Maximum Service Television * Mr. Thomas J. Sugrue - Vice President of Government Affairs, T-Mobile USA, Inc. * Ms. Jeannine Kenney - Senior Policy Advisor, Consumer Union * Mr. Lawrence J. White - Co-Chair of the Spectrum Policy Working Group, The Digital Age Communications Act Project, Progress & Freedom Foundation Each witness' written testimony should be available online soon - click on their name above to read their statement. For more information, see http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1709 >BOB< Robert Horvitz Open Spectrum Foundation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: robert_horvitz mob:+420 775024705 tel:+420 222726807 http://www.openspectrum.info/ _______________________________________________ Openspectrum mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.media.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/openspectrum -- ======================= Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet ======================= Bway.net Note--> new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net ======================= -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
