Internet Providers and Platforms: Getting Law and Policy Right

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ELEVENTH ANNUAL TELECOM POLICY CONFERENCE

The theme of this year's conference, "Internet Providers and Platforms: Getting Law and Policy Right," couldn't be more timely. Within that theme, we'll be discussing net neutrality, privacy regulation, 5G, spectrum policy, universal service, the proper role of the FCC, FTC, Department of Justice, and the states in overseeing Internet service providers and platforms like Google and Facebook ... and more!

Keynote Speakers Include:

FTC Chairman Joseph Simons

DOJ Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim

FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly

NTIA Administrator David Redl

A list of confirmed speakers is below !

WHAT: FSF's Eleventh Annual Telecom Policy Conference

WHERE: National Press Club, Washington, DC

WHEN: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 – 8:30 AM - 2:45 PM

The Free State Foundation will hold its Eleventh Annual Telecom Policy Conference on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The theme of this year's conference is: "Internet Providers and Platforms: Getting Law and Policy Right." FSF's annual conference is one of the nation's premier communications law and policy events.

This is the guarantee: As in previous years, a truly outstanding lineup of senior officials and prominent experts from the FCC, other government agencies, Congress, industry, academia, and think tanks will discuss and debate the most important communications and Internet policy issues of the day, including net neutrality and broadband policy, competition policy among Internet providers and platforms in a technologically dynamic environment, spectrum policy and wireless issues, privacy and data security, and much more.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Alden Abbott - General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission

James Assey - Executive Vice President, NCTA - The Internet & Television Association

Tim Brennan - Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors

David Cohen - Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation

Maurita Coley - President and CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council

Michelle Connolly - Professor, Duke University, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors

Makan Delrahim - Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U. S. Department of Justice

Kathleen Grillo - Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Government Affairs, Verizon Communications Inc.

Daniel Lyons - Professor, Boston College Law School, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors

Joan Marsh - Executive Vice President, Regulatory & State External Affairs, AT&T

Robert McDowell - Partner, Cooley, and former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Michael O'Rielly - Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

David Redl - Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Joseph Simons - Chairman, Federal Trade Commission

Gigi Sohn - Distinguished Fellow, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy and Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate

Tom Tauke - Former Member of Congress and former Executive Vice President, Verizon Communications Inc.

Christopher Yoo - Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors

REGISTRATION IS COMPLIMENTARY, INCLUDING CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND LUNCH.

BUT YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND.

#FSFConf11

In case you missed it…please see the blog, "The T-Mobile and Sprint Merger on Day 122," by Free State Foundation President Randolph May and the blog, "The FCC Should Limit Franchise Fees to Remove Investment Obstacles," by Free State Foundation Senior Fellow Seth Cooper.

The Free State Foundation's newest book , A Reader on Net Neutrality and Restoring Internet Freedom , by Randolph May and Seth Cooper, is available from Amazon here in paperback for $9.95 or for your Kindle here for $2.99. And it is available here from Apple and other booksellers in various e-book formats for $2.99 or less. Read more about the book here .

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