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Of the Free State Foundation and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom President obama conferenc conference. I want to extend a welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junky. My mom, may she rest in peace she always worried when i was a cspan junky, not really knowing what i meant by that. But im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the 10th Anniversary Gala last december, so with next years annual conference will be in double digits for this event, too. Which just confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add when youre busy as well. Almost every year, i say some of you know this, i say that youre annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better, and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true, im going to deep saying it. Even though we had to reschedule this years conference becau
Our road map begins with ge, immelt is set to retire this summer the tech stocks are on track to tumble apple under pressure missolo downgrades apple first up, jeff immelt is resigning as the Ceo John Flannery will take over we have talked about immelt and ges trouble just trying to keep pace with the dow. Really since his tenure began. Its the worst performer in the dow since he came in apple hes down 31 some people can always argue at that moment that he came in it was a high water mark. Others have said, listen, he did cut the dividend, but many who cut the dividend i think thats whats happened when you compare him to a honeywell, when you compare him to david cote, even to greg hayes at united technology, difficult to compare very difficult to compare. Meaning immelt does not meet their standard its empirical. Im not saying listen, i know the guys, i know them pretty well, and they were able to reshuffle the portfolios in ways that generated a much better return honeywell did a muc
Telecommunication policy conference in washington at the National Press club. Thats where fcc chair pie was joined by Administration Officials and leaders. Well show you about three hours of this conference and well start with the discussion on the future of the internet. Okay. Well, everyone is so quiet that i think we should get started. That was really that was really good. Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation, and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference. I want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that, but im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here, and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So wi
Warm twwelcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that. But im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So with next years annual conference, well be in double digits for this event too. It just confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add when youre busy as well. Almost every year i say some of you know this. I say that our annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true, im going to keep saying it. Even though we had to reschedule this years conference because our first date, march 14th, happened to be the only snowy day this winter in washington, i think this years conference upholds the tradition. A quick