Across the country and serving about 35 of our landmass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota by Mount Rushmore to visit golden west and we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where we got cooperatives and if you are in my state of virginia weve got scott county down in the very tip of the state serving the tristate area so ive got 850. Host when you talk about landmass you not talking landmass or population at all. Guest peter, you hit upon the key part of this. Its about 5 of the American Population but they are truly the providers in this extremely rural part of the country and everywhere from alaska down to the panhandle of florida so they stretched all across and it got everybody from someone who is got about 150 subscribers to probably my Largest Company has just about 100,000 subscribers. They are serving those areas with quite frankly the Bell Compani
Host and this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield of ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes the ceo there. Our guest reporter from Telecommunications Reports is paul kirby. Huly bloomfield Shirley Bloomfield, who do you represent . Guest about 850 communitybased broadband providers across the country, theyre in 46 states, so theyre the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolved very quickly to become a broadband provider. So they truly are the onestop communication providers in a lot of areas around the country serving about 35 of our land mass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest oh, absolutely. All the way to western south dakota by mount rushmore, we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where ive got a number of cooperatives, and if were look over here in few state of virginia in my state of virginia, weve got scott county down in the very
Who i see on my screen here, until im willing your evil to return, documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Taylor and the email address we provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing, and i want to inform all members and witnesses that we are expected to have a series of hearings on the floor all day today. I expect that what we will do is we will rotate through, so that both on the republican and democratic side, so that we will be able to continue to hearing as seamlessly as possible, when the chair has to go, mr. Pallone will preside, and vice versa mister guthrie, i would hope that the republicans can do the same thing. The chair will now recognize herself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. inaudible my question is, are you needed, chairwoman . I was muted because my staff is looking for my Opening Statement, which was not included in my briefing outlook. I will make my Opening Statement in just one moment. Mr. P
Cspan created by americas cabletelevision companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host this week join is on the communicators this representative bob latta, the Top Republican on the communications and Technology Subcommittee and our guest reporter is sam sabin of Morning Consult. Congressman latta joining us from bowling green, ohio, there are then several proposals put out to expand world broadband especially in this time of covid. Which ones are you supporting and which ones do you think would benefit your largely rural district . Guest thanks so much for having me on. Its really important we do talking about world broadband. Ive been engaged in this for years and one of the cofounders of the probroadband caucus and with groups that a meeting all the time because this is not a republican or democrat raided the issue. This affects everyone in the rural areas. Its important for us to get this out as soon as we can especially during this covi
Television provider. Joining us on the communicators this week is representative greg walden, a republican from oregon, former chairman of the energy and commerce committee. Now, the Top Republican on that committee which sees a lot of telecommunications legislation. Our guest reporter, chris mills rodrigo of the hill. Congressman, youre retiring. Why . Rep. Walden i have had a great run. I have been at this 22 years in the u. S. House, the oregon legislature. Im not one of those members leaving cranky and angry. Democracy is built to be messy. Ive had a good run, ive enjoyed it, but it is time for somebody new to step in. My wife and i are ready to go take on some new challenge, of what i have no idea yet. I have been so busy, but it has been a great run. We got a lot done, so i am pleased with what weve done. Peter speaking of that, you are regarded as one of the Telecommunications Experts in the congress because of your background in radio and being on the enc committee. What is you