The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
This hearing is called to order. I want to thank you for your written testimony and prayer oral testimony and the answers to our questions. I asked that my written Opening Statement be put in the record. On to make a couple of comments about what i want to see the goal of the searing to be. Ive done this in a while but my chairman developed a statement to enhance the Economic Security of america for a more Efficient Government and the reason im pointing out today is i cant think of a hearing where that statement is more of likable. When we talk about 5g we talk about the Economic Opportunity in order to take advantage of that opportunity to avoid those Security Risks, we need more Efficient Government to step up in competing against what is becoming a friendly economic rival but adversary in the many cases on the line on the world stage in china. So, in terms of the definition of its product, im really hoping to be able to lay out a certified definition at lay out some priorities of th
Done this in a while but my chairman developed a statement to enhance the Economic Security of america for a more Efficient Government and the reason im pointing out today is i cant think of a hearing where that statement is more of likable. When we talk about 5g we talk about the Economic Opportunity in order to take advantage of that opportunity to avoid those Security Risks, we need more Efficient Government to step up in competing against what is becoming a friendly economic rival but adversary in the many cases on the line on the world stage in china. So, in terms of the definition of its product, im really hoping to be able to lay out a certified definition at lay out some priorities of things we need to address so that we can focus everyones attention on this. Let me take a stab. This is an unusual opportunity. Its an opportunity moving to 5g which would be trillions of dollars of activity. Its an enormous opportunity with the competition and take advantage of that opportunity a
Good afternoon. Im attorney general josh stein of north carolina. I want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. Im pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general Gordon Macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u. S. Telecom and representatives a major Telephone Company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robo calls. To first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general Gordon Macdonald. Stein forou general your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. Issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. Us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. A veryo calls are
As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un