The National Broadband Plan: A Roundtable Discussion

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
and the
New York Law School Media Center
Monday, April 19, 2010
1 p.m.-5 p.m.

See webcast: http://nyls.mediasite.com/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=0c796faa93ca468891f7b84...

The FCC's adoption of its March 16, 2010 National Broadband Plan and a recent court decision regarding the FCC's jurisdiction over broadband services has sparked vigorous debate as to whether and how to promote the development of highspeed wireline and wireless broadband. Major differences exist as to financial, technological, and legal issues.

Keynote speaker at the Roundtable is BLAIR LEVIN, head of the FCC team that developed the National Broadband Plan. He will be joined by a number of other stakeholders and experts, including:

• Simon Flannery, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley;
• David Don, Senior Director, Public Policy at Comcast Corp.;
• Dan Margolis, attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer;
• Anna-Maria Kovacs, President of Regulatory Source Associates, LLC;
• Larry Darby, American Consumer Institute;
• Harold Feld, Legal Director of Public Knowledge;
• James Grimmelmann , Professor of Law and member, Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School;
• Raul Katz, Professor at the Columbia Business School
• Chris Libertelli, Senior Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Skype
• Eli Noam, Director of CITI and Professor at Columbia Business School
• Kathy Brown or Link Hoewing, senior public policy executives at Verizon

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and is available on-line at http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/events/fcc2010/FCCreg2010.

Further details, including the latest speaker line-up, will posted on the CITI website (http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/events/fcc2010)

and the Media Center website (http://www.nyls.edu/centers/projects/media_center/broadband).

Please call CITI at 212-854-4222 if you have any questions.