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it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session of the center for the economics of the internet's review of the telecommunications act of 1996. with us today is commissioner michael o'rielly, former commissioner of the federal communications commission. internet's review of the telecommunications act of 1996. with us today is commissioner michael o'rielly, former commissioner of the federal communications commission. he was one of the original staff members working on the telecommunications act of 1996, together with yours truly. together we will have a brief review of the telecommu...

Guest we created a digital freeforall in that bill where every company could do anything. That telescoped the time frame that it took in order to deploy fiber all across our country to create the capacity so that all of these new companies could get created so that words like google and hulu and youtube are are part of the culture today. But they were impossible to be created before the act. So we got a lot right. Nothing is perfect. But one thing we did do was we moved not only our own country, but the world from analog to digital. And if youre living in india or china, youre now using the wo...

Cspan denny hastert, author of, speaker, what`s the granby roll . Guest the granby roll is a move in wrestling that you can score from the bottom. Not many people do it. And it`s good in wrestling, it`s probably good in politics, too. If you can score when you`re on the bottom and keep winning, that`s what it`s all about. Cspan where does the name granby come from . Guest Granby High School in norfolk, virginia. They were the instigator coach by the name of bill martin was instigated it and taught it. And it kind of passed through the east coast. I picked it up in the midwest, and it was one o...

Probably good in politics, too. If you can score when you`re on the bottom and keep winning, that`s what it`s all about. Cspan where does the name granby come from . Guest Granby High School in norfolk, virginia. They were the instigator coach by the name of bill martin was instigated it and taught it. And it kind of passed through the east coast. I picked it up in the midwest, and it was one of our trademarks. Cspan when was the last time you were in a high school classroom, teaching . Guest probably was about a year or two ago. I try to go back to my district and talk in a classroom from tim...

Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know the most critical thing was congress didnt give us any slack and i dont think they shouldve let me pas...