Them director of medications and society program. We look at the impact of network and Information Technologies on Democratic Institutions and values. Business,ogether government, and the nonprofit sector. We are very pleased to welcome you today to our, with our speaker. Some housekeeping items. I want to welcome our audiences on cspan and the aspen channel on youtube and for those who want to tweet about it, futurefcc is the hashtag. We are happy to welcome the 31st chairman of the fcc, who was appointed by president obama in 2013 and unanimously confirmed by the senate. He is wellknown to the Communications World in the past in the cable and Wireless Industries and, i think, is the only person selected to both the Cable Television hall of fame and wireless hall of fame. He is the author of take Untold Stories of the civil war. He shepherded many important policies at the federal Communications Commission over the last four years, including strong Net Neutrality rules, the first ince
Them director of medications and society program. We look at the impact of network and Information Technologies on Democratic Institutions and values. Business,ogether government, and the nonprofit sector. We are very pleased to welcome you today to our, with our speaker. Some housekeeping items. I want to welcome our audiences on cspan and the aspen channel on youtube and for those who want to tweet about it, futurefcc is the hashtag. We are happy to welcome the 31st chairman of the fcc, who was appointed by president obama in 2013 and unanimously confirmed by the senate. He is wellknown to the Communications World in the past in the cable and Wireless Industries and, i think, is the only person selected to both the Cable Television hall of fame and wireless hall of fame. He is the author of take Untold Stories of the civil war. He shepherded many important policies at the federal Communications Commission over the last four years, including strong Net Neutrality rules, the first ince
The mississippi runoff is being described as a fight within the gop between Establishment Republicans and the tea party. Quoting from the story the race has the feel of an alamo moment while the establishment has poured money in and outside groups raised money for mcdaniel. We will bring you the result and the Election Night speeches as they come in. First, todays hearing on the merger between at t and directv that would create a 48. 5 billion merger. The chair of the house subcommittee on antitrust law. Good morning. The hearing will come to morning. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Now i recognize myself for my Opening Statement. We are hear today to examine the proposed merger between at t and directv. As i reminded witnesses during the recent comcasttime warner hearing, todays procedure will m not determine if the merger is approved but this form will allow us to discuss the potential of the motherinleme allow us to ask questio
At t brings and we think directv has talent as well. I think worldclass enbenefit programs for employees will be a good thing. Thank you, sir. All right. Mr. Stephenson and mr. White, id like to ask you both to talk a little about the companys commitment to diversity, the merged Companies Commitment to diversity in a number of different contexts. I know everyone will agree having a Diverse Group of individuals as Real Partners both inside and outside of the country is important. At ts Public Interest statement pledges at ts diversity best practices will be applied to directv. Such action would be laudable given at turkeys his with supplier diversity and inclusion. Mr. Stephenson, please describe the best practices referenced in the Public Interest statement. Yes. First ill start with employees we have a strong belief our employees reflect the market they serve. I dont think you can be successful in the marketplace employees, executive all the way up to the board that reflects the peopl
Bergmaier to comment about anything hes heard during the questioning period so far with our two distinguished witnesses. Yes. Thank you. I think when it comes to the investment promises that at ts making, i would urge the subcommittee to basically put them in context. I think a lot of at ts numbers consist of upgrades, adding a fixed wireless product to a fixed wireless coverage area. That might be some amount of investment, but it is less than an initial buildout. I think its important to put it in context that way and also put it into the context of at ts existing upgrade plans. At t already has a fairly ambitious buildout plan that has something called project v. I. P. Which talks about a lot of the new buildout and coverage that at t plans to do. At t has an initiative where it wants to upgrade a number of cities to gigabit wired broadband, however, its not exactly clear the scope of at ts existing plans. We know that theyre ambitious based on at ts statements but its hard to quant