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The FCC's National Broadband Plan: The Early Reaction

The Technology Policy Institute and the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy are hosting a half-day event on March 23rd on the FCC's newly announced National Broadband Plan. Experts from industry, academia and government will share their reaction to the Plan in two panel discussions focusing on the effects of the Plan on both investment and broadband penetration. The event will feature a keynote from Blair Levin, Executive Director of the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative.

Click below to watch archived footage of the event.

Blair Levin Keynote Address

Panel 1

Panel 2

THE FCC'S NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: THE EARLY REACTION

March 23, 2010
8:30am - 12:30pm

The National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge
529 14th Street, NW
13th Floor
Washington, DC

8:30-9:00	REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00-9:30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Blair Levin, Executive Director, Omnibus Broadband Initiative, Federal Communications Commission
9:30-10:45	PANEL DISCUSSION: INCREASING INCENTIVES TO INNOVATE AND INVEST Thomas Lenard (Moderator), Technology Policy Institute James Cicconi, AT&T Kyle McSlarrow, National Cable and Telecommunications Association Peter Pitsch, Intel Gregory Rosston, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Thomas Tauke, Verizon
10:45-11:00	BREAK
11:00-12:15	PANEL DISCUSSION: INCREASING PENETRATION TO UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS John Mayo (Moderator), Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution Walter McCormick, USTelecom Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and America Life Project Robert Shapiro, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Joseph Waz, Comcast

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