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Federal communications commission. In proceedings which lasted over four hours the commissioners considered and voted on several issues including rowboat Call Blocking regulations. Media ownership rules into the a new broadcast standard for television. Good morning welcome to that november 2017 meeting of the federal communications commission. Good morning to you and good morning commissioners. You will hear eight items for your consideration first you will consider a report in order that would ...

Proposals and great work from the staff of those of republican and the democrat side and i look forward to seeing progress. The bills to be extended are targeted and promoting innovation, cutting the red tape and advancing Public Safety. To highlight each though i do want to call attention to a couple of resolutions expressing the Guiding Principles on broadband infrastructure that should underpin our efforts first. Any funds for broadband in an infrastructure package should go to underserved ar...

Supervisor peskin good morning welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today february 27th. Mr. Clerk, if you could call the role. Clerk calling roll we have quorum. Supervisor peskin we have a motion to excuse commissioner safai made by commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner stephanie. Well take that without objectjectiobjec objection. Im going to talk about two issues we have been discussing here at the ta with increasing frequency, Transportation Network companies and dri...

Got a lot to talk about. With 25 bills introduced in time to be a part of todays hearing. I very much appreciate all of the thoughtful proposals and the great work from the staff, both the republican and the democrat side, and i look for to seeing progress as a move to the next few weeks. These legislative initiatives follow the leadership of President Trumps recent efforts on broadband infrastructure. The bills to be examined in this hearing are targeted at promoting the innovation, cutting red...

Only going to grow but it needs to be sustained because the infrastructure will exist to support it. With the drive act we can build eisenhowers vision by maintaining the ability of goods and Services Necessary to make our economy go forward. There is an old documentary nobody reads anymore document nobody reads anymore, call the constitution. It tells us what we are supposed to do. We are to defend america, to build roads and bridges, and this is exactly what congress will a competent bypassing...

Neutrality has become the law of the land. Hows that going . Guest well, its early. Our rules have just become final, so we have some implementation to do as well so its early to know exactly how the rules are going to play out and what are the impacts. We still have a court case going on, and well see how that moves through the process and see what happens in the litigation side of the equation. Host well, theres some talk up on capitol hill with the republican ares about doing republicans abou...

You by the folks back home want to know why what is the problem with the ftc that brought the last east that forced this change and then to respond to the questions as you know the ftc act atlarge says that it doesnt have jurisdiction over the telecommunication carriers. They say we are telecommunications and that triggered that. What constituents should come as we work closely with the ftc. The jurisdiction as far as its providers and what we do which will be forthcoming in the next few months ...

Not to rely on safe harbor that does not provide much guidance at all. You are not encouraging folks not to not block calls are weco[ together on that fact . On that we agree which is why i propose the agency created detail specific guideline. I do not want to send mixed messages. Thank you. My time has expired. Feel free to call us at home. A prerecorded message. I think that there are issues. The committee will proceed to talk. Thank you. We go now to iowa for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chai...

Thanks for the question and the answer. You got it. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Talk to matt. Yeah. That would be great. Thanks. Thank you. Its wonderful to see you again. Thanks for coming. Absolutely. Appreciate it. I love listening to you. I appreciate your answers. Thank you. Good morning. Saw you this morning. Yes, sir. You did it. Good. Thank you very much. Go get them. I will. Maam, how are you . Good to see you again. Thanks for coming back. Hi. Good to see youkser governor. Im not a voter o...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. You both agree to facilitate broadband deployment will take reform, is that correct . Yes. Commissioner pei, you mentioned principles. With respect to my broadband plan its a twofold plan and it would be targeted changes to the rules to allow rate of return rate carriers for the costs they incur for deploying in rural areas and that support only extends to voice service, and secondly creating a voluntary path where rate of return carriers could at their option get into s...