[Note the possible implications to DRM and SDR. steve]
Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. John McCain (R-AZ) announced agenda for
upcoming session, including several communications related issues. The
Commerce Committee will examine, in order of importance:
(1) Financial crisis in telecom industry
(2) Spectrum policies
(3) FCC reauthorization
(4) Media consolidation
(5) Cable rates
(6) Broadband deployment and local competition
(7) DTV transition
(8) Offline and online consumer privacy
(9) Ownership diversification
(10) Consumer use of digital content.
Jon S. Beamer
Manager, Government Relations & Legislative Affairs
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Suite 350
Washington, DC 20004
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the
underdog
in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is
business.
--Mark Twain