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Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in eve...

Much every state in this country. Basicvide what used to be telephone service. They are now broadband providers. They have also become the one stop shop Service Providers for immunitys. They do video, wireless, data centers, whatever technologies their communities require. We resent their interests here in washington, d. C. Who are some of your members . We have everywhere from the largest cooperative in the Telecommunications Cooperative in South Carolina with 100,000 subscribers, to numerous s...

Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy...

Choice to do more ourselves. If we take the ee rate program and revamp it, rebooted, refocus it, we can do a lot to bring broadband to schools across the country. You have put a lot on the table. Joining our conversation is Communications Daily executive Senior Editor howard buskirk. Issuesmentioned to big that there is a lot of fcc watchers believing will dominate the commission. The first is the incentive option. How far along do you think planning is, what other pressure points, one of the co...