TITLE: Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001

CIS-NO: 2001-H361-23  
SOURCE: Committee on Energy and Commerce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Apr. 12, 2001  
LENGTH: iii+151 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:107-24  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-17184  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-27121-0.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-24. Hearing to consider H.R. 1542, the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to promote Internet competition, growth, and customer access.
 
Includes provisions to:
   a. 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.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Internet broadband transport providers open access requirements and local telephone cos long distance data transport authority estab

BILLS: 107 H.R. 1542

DESCRIPTORS:  
    INTERNET; TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE INDUSTRY; CONSUMERS; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; INTERNET FREEDOM AND BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT ACT; COMMUNICATIONS ACT; COMPETITION; BELL OPERATING COMPANIES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT

01-H361-23 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Apr. 12, 2001 p. 33-151
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   ASHTON, DOUGLAS C. (Managing Director, Communications Technologies Equity Research, Bear Stearns and Co)
   CICCONI, JAMES W. (General Counsel and Executive Vice President, AT&T Corp)
   GREGORI, JOSEPH (CEO, InfoHighway Communications Corp)
   HENRY, JAMES H. (Managing General Partner, Greenfield Hill Capital LLP)
   HILLS, GORDON (Board Member, Keep America Connected; also representing National Association of Community Action Agencies)
   MANCINI, PAUL K. (Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, SBC Communications)
   MCLEOD, CLARK (Chairman and Co-CEO, McLeodUSA, Inc)
   MCMINN, CHARLES J. (Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Covad Communications)
   PITSCH, PETER (Director, Communications Policy, Intel Corp)
   REGAN, TIMOTHY J. (Senior Vice President, Corning Inc)
   TAUKE, THOMAS J. (Senior Vice President, Public Policy and External Affairs, Verizon Communications)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of challenges facing telecommunications industry; opposing views on H.R. 1542; concerns regarding impact of bill on competition in local telecommunications markets; need to eliminate unbundling rules to facilitate deployment of residential broadband service; merits of H.R. 1542; elaboration on issues related to broadband deployment and H.R. 1542.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Internet broadband transport providers open access requirements and local telephone cos long distance data transport authority estab
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AT&T CORP.; INFOHIGHWAY COMMUNICATIONS CORP.; GREENFIELD HILL CAPITAL LLP; KEEP AMERICA CONNECTED; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES; SBC COMMUNICATIONS; MCLEODUSA, INC.; COVAD COMMUNICATIONS; INTEL CORP.; CORNING INC.; VERIZON

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