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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
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2000 CIS H 52173
TITLE: Internet
Freedom Act and Internet Growth and Development Act of 1999
CIS-NO:
2000-H521-73
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 30, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+156 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1020-A; 1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/46
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-15888
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 46. Hearing to
consider H.R. 1686 (text, p. 2-5), the Internet Freedom Act, and H.R. 1685
(text, p. 5-11), the Internet Growth and Development Act of 1999, both to amend
the Communications Act of 1934 to promote Internet competition, growth, and
customer access.
Focuses on provisions to:
a. Establish new presumptions under the Sherman Act that
certain conduct by telephone companies or cable companies violates antitrust
law; and require that broadband access transport providers providing subscribers
with high-speed Internet access from an affiliated firm, also provide
unaffiliated service providers with equally favorable access to transmission
facilities.
b. Allow local telephone companies, including
regional 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.
Supplementary
material (p. 139-156) includes witnesses' written replies to Committee questions
and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Internet
broadband transport providers open access requirements and local telephone cos
long distance data transport authority estab
BILLS: 106
H.R. 1686; 106
H.R. 1685
DESCRIPTORS:
INTERNET; TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE INDUSTRY; CABLE
TELEVISION; CONSUMERS; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; INTERNET FREEDOM ACT;
INTERNET GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT; COMMUNICATIONS ACT; COMPETITION; SHERMAN
ACT; ANTITRUST LAW; BELL OPERATING COMPANIES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
00-H521-73 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 30, 1999 p. 19-151
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
BARR,
WILLIAM P. (Executive Vice President and General Counsel, GTE Corp)
VRADENBURG, GEORGE, III (Senior Vice President, America
Online)
WASCH, KENNETH A. (President, Software &
Information Industry Association)
STEN, ERIK
(Commissioner, Portland, Oreg)
CLELAND, SCOTT C. (Managing
Director, Legg Mason Precursor Group)
ROSENBLUM, MARK C.
(Vice President, Law, AT&T Corp)
SALSBURY, MICHAEL H.
(Executive Vice President and General Counsel, MCI WorldCom)
BOGGS, TIMOTHY A. (Senior Vice President, Public Policy,
Time Warner, Inc)
WINDHAUSEN, JOHN D., JR. (President,
Association for Local Telecommunications Services)
JACOBS,
TOD A. (Senior Telecommunications Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co)
KIMMELMAN, GENE (Co-Director, D.C. Office, Consumers
Union)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Differing
views on H.R. 1686 and H.R. 1685 provisions to establish open-access
requirements for broadband access transport providers and to allow local
telephone companies to transport data over long distance telephone lines;
importance of H.R. 1686 and H.R. 1685 to Internet competitiveness, greater
broadband deployment, and increase in high-speed Internet
connections.
Opposing opinions on open-access provisions
to allow cable subscribers to use unaffiliated service providers to obtain
Internet access; concerns about expansion of antitrust presumptions under H.R.
1686 and H.R. 1685.
Agreement with Telecommunications Act
restrictions on local telephone companies entry into long distance markets;
perspectives on consumer protection issues related to H.R. 1686 and H.R. 1685;
elaboration on Internet antitrust issues.
INSERTION:
-- Apfelbaum, Marc and Chiddix, James (Time Warner Cable),
"Internet Access Over Cable: A Cause for Celebration, Not Regulation" (p.
68-88).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet
broadband transport providers open access requirements and local telephone cos
long distance data transport authority estab
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
BERNSTEIN, SANFORD C., & CO.; CONSUMER
PROTECTION
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
