Senate Communications Subcommittee Chmn. Burns (R-Mont.) will unv...
Senate Communications Subcommittee Chmn. Burns (R-Mont.) will unveil his Tech 7 agenda for 107th Congress in news conference Wed. Spokesman said 3 items are “brand spanking new,” but wouldn’t elaborate beyond telling us one was “an Internet issue,” one…
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“a spectrum issue” (that spokesman said would be “an enormous undertaking) and “the last one is largely telephony.” Among returning issues, Burns will discuss 4 bills under heading of “high-speed Internet access": (1) Eliminating regulations on 2% telcos, which serve less than that proportion of nation’s access lines. (2) Removing interim caps on size of telephone universal service fund. (3) Allowing low-power TV stations to offer high- speed access. (4) Giving tax incentives for broadband deployment to underserved areas, as recently proposed again by Sen. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). Other returning issues will include spam, privacy, e-govt.