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2000 CIS H 27162
TITLE: Internet
Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 1999
CIS-NO:
2000-H271-62
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 27, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+89 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-132
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-132. Hearing before the Subcom on
Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection to consider H.R. 2420, the
Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 1999, to
promote Internet competition, growth, and customer access, especially in rural
areas.
Focuses on provisions to:
a. Allow
Bell operating companies to transport data over long distance telephone lines
without first opening up local markets to competition as required by the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
b. Exempt Bell companies
from increased unbundling and resale requirements with respect to high speed
data service.
Supplementary material (p. 85-89) includes a
submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Internet
broadband transport providers open access requirements and local telephone cos
long distance data transport authority estab
BILLS: 106
H.R. 2420
DESCRIPTORS:
INTERNET; TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE INDUSTRY; CONSUMERS;
TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; INTERNET FREEDOM AND BROADBAND
DEPLOYMENT ACT; COMPETITION; BELL OPERATING COMPANIES;
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
00-H271-62 TESTIMONY NO: 1
July 27, 2000 p. 18-84
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
ELLIS, JAMES D. (Senior Executive Vice President, SBC
Communications, Inc)
YOUNG, EDWARD D., III (Senior Vice
President, Federal Government Relations, Verizon Communications)
HAYNES, ARNE L. (President and CEO, Rainier Group; also
representing U.S. Telecom Association)
KHANNA, DHRUV
(Executive Vice President, Covad Communications Co)
SCHONHAUT, CINDY (Senior Vice President, Executive
Government and External Affairs, ICG Communications; also representing COMPTEL
and ALTZ)
CALI, LEONARD J. (Vice President, Federal
Government Affairs, AT&T Corp)
POCIASK, STEPHEN B.
(Executive Vice President, Joel Popkin and Co)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Differing views on H.R. 2420; merits of H.R.
2420, including implications for Internet competitiveness, greater
broadband deployment, and increase in high-speed Internet
connections; anticipated negative impact of H.R. 2420 on broadband entrants;
perspectives on Telecommunications Act of 1996.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet broadband transport providers open access
requirements and local telephone cos long distance data transport authority
estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
SBC
COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001
