[Air-L] VIDEO: @HouseCommerce #SubCommTech Hearing – Reauthorization of NTIA

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Fri Feb 3 11:59:47 PST 2017


Touted as a "holistic" overview, this was indeed a wide-ranging hearing.
Witnesses were 3 former Administrators, but not *Larry Strickling*
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-strickling-25162/> - presumably now
kicking up his heels at some paradisiacal resort after finally *signing off
on ICANN*
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/strickling-to-crocker-06jan17-en.pdf>.
Topics included: *Trump infrastructure$$*, it was estimated $20 bil will go
to broadband; *Spectrum* - agencies will be scrutinized for spare space; *5G
*- shorter wavelengths will require many more pole attachments, rollout is
anticipated to begin in 2020, *ICANN *- the giving up of oversight frees up
the US to be partisan! e.g. argue that .amazon should go to the US company.
Also suggested was that the Administrator should be given a power upgrade
from "Assistant Secretary" to "Secretary". The post, and Deputy, are *currently
vacant* <https://www.ntia.doc.gov/offices>,.


joly posted: "On Thursday January 2 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives
Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
held a hearing - Reauthorization of NTIA - in Washington DC. Established in
1978, the National Telecommunications"



[image: Energy + Commerce]On *Thursday January 2 2016*, the *U.S. House of
Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on
Communications and Technology
<https://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/communications-and-technology>*
held a hearing - *Reauthorization of NTIA
<https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings-and-votes/hearings/reauthorization-ntia>*
- in Washington DC. Established in 1978, the *National Telecommunications
and Information Administration <https://www.ntia.doc.gov/>* (NTIA) and its
administrator were tasked with serving as the president’s principal advisor
on communications policy. The NTIA administrator serves as the coordinator
of government spectrum allocations, and voice of the administration at the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and in Congress. Despite NTIA’s
important role on communications and information policy, it has not been
reauthorized since 1992. Members discussed NTIA’s role moving forward in
the efficient use of federally held spectrum, its role in broadband
deployment, and its role in promoting safe, secure communications networks.
Witnesses: *Meredith Attwell Baker*, President and CEO, CTIA; *Anna M.
Gomez*, Partner, Wiley Rein; *John M.R. Kneuer,* President and Founder, JKC
Consulting. Video is below:

*View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/WUEPEwxTh5g
*Background mem*o:
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20170202/105507/HHRG-115-IF16-20170202-SD002-U1.pdf
*Press release*:
https://energycommerce.house.gov/news-center/press-releases/subcommtech-examines-ntia-s-reauthorization-and-its-role-21st-century
*Twitter*: #SubCommTech + @NTIAgov
<https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23SubCommTech%20%40NTIAgov>


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