See “In Discussing ‘Broadband and the Biden Administration,’ Trump and Obama Transition Workers Praise Auctions,” Broadband Breakfast, November 22, 2020.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 12 Noon ET — “Broadband and the Biden Administration”

• What changes will the administration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris bring for the country’s use of broadband technologies? How will the technology and communications industries be affected? Will public policy on controversial tech policy issues, including Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, be markedly different from today? What does the quest for “universal broadband” mean?
• From BuildBackBetter.com, the Biden-Harris transition team web site, we read:
  • Mobilize American ingenuity to build a modern infrastructure and an equitable, clean energy future. We’ve seen the need for a more resilient economy for the long-term, and that means investing in a modern, sustainable infrastructure and sustainable engines of growth — from roads and bridges, to energy grids and schools, to universal broadband. Biden has a plan to meet the climate crisis, build a clean energy economy, address environmental injustice, and create millions of good-paying union jobs.

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Panelists include:

• Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute
• Mark Jamison, Director and Gunter Professor, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida; Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• Other guests have been invited
• Drew Clark (Moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Mark Jamison, Scott Wallsten, Drew Clark

Scott Wallsten is President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute and also a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. He is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy, and his research focuses on competition, regulation, telecommunications, the economics of digitization, and technology policy. He was the economics director for the FCC’s National Broadband Plan and has been a lecturer in Stanford University’s public policy program, director of communications policy studies and senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a senior fellow at the AEI – Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a staff economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Mark Jamison is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on how technology affects the economy, and on telecommunications and Federal Communications Commission issues. He is concurrently the director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. Jamison served on the FCC transition team for President Trump, as a special adviser to the chair of the governor of Florida’s internet task force, and as president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. Earlier, he was manager of regulatory policy at Sprint, head of research for the Iowa Utilities Board, and communications economist for the Kansas Corporation Commission. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida.

“Broadband and the Biden Administration” is sponsored by:

As with all Broadband Breakfast Live Online events, the FREE webcasts will take place at 12 Noon ET on Wednesday.

Panelist resources

• The Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida’s Washington School of Business
• 3 reasons why Biden will kill off net neutrality, by Mark Jamison, AEI, November 10, 2020
• On Big Tech, antitrust, and the House Judiciary Committee majority staff’s recommendations, by Mark Jamison, AEI, October 30, 2020 (See also, “Panel of Antitrust Experts Assembled by AEI Slams House Judiciary Antitrust Report as ‘Political’,” Broadband Breakfast, October 30, 2020)
• If the Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Google succeeds, consumers lose, by Mark Jamison, AEI, October 23, 2020
• “Online Free Speech and Section 230 with Jamie Susskind” (Two Think Minimum), by Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh, TPI, October 19, 2020
• President Trump vs. Integrity and Independence, by Scott Wallsten, TPI, August 10, 2020
• New Broadband Maps Are Coming. They’ll Be Useless Unless We Also Invest in Research and Analytical Capacity, by Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh, Morning Consult, July 22, 2020

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