The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
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Also asked about a recent report found coverage status admitted to the fcc by various wire carriers to be an accurate and how the commission was planning to respond. Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senat
Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
Wework. Biggest bets, a drop in ad sales and what that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger in a courtroom on monday. States and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. But the latest, jennifer read, who was in the courtroom. Takeaway what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read to the pretrial memoranda , lets go straight to the witnesses. The judges really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We cut right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. Documents some bad introduced with the first witness. Ands only two witnesses part of the third but overall, i think the day was pretty good for the companies. Taylor we got a headline that sprints chief marketing officer said in 2016 that he thought this merger would raise