Nick
01-19-07, 08:58 AM
Net neutrality, a strengthened universal service fund, provisions to allow local governments to offer commercial telecommunications services and regulation to "encourage" DSL stand-alone offerings will all get the thumbs up from Congress in 2007 if Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) has his way. In an interview for CSPAN's "The Communicators" series, Boucher further suggested that broadband services should be a subject for universal service expenditures.
While Boucher declined to comment on the possibilities of a merger in the satellite radio sector, he offered some encouragement for renewed talks of a DIRECTV/DISH merger. In light of the current highly competitive multiplatform sector, he said, "If a merger between these two was presented today ... analysis at the Justice Department and the FCC could prove very different."
The C-SPAN interview with Boucher, who is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, can be viewed on C-SPAN on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. or Monday, Jan 22, at either 8 a.m. or 8 p.m.
www.SkyReport.com - used with permission
While Boucher declined to comment on the possibilities of a merger in the satellite radio sector, he offered some encouragement for renewed talks of a DIRECTV/DISH merger. In light of the current highly competitive multiplatform sector, he said, "If a merger between these two was presented today ... analysis at the Justice Department and the FCC could prove very different."
The C-SPAN interview with Boucher, who is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, can be viewed on C-SPAN on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. or Monday, Jan 22, at either 8 a.m. or 8 p.m.
www.SkyReport.com - used with permission