Provider. And this week on the look at some of the issues that will be faced by the tech community, congress and government in 2016. We have a roundtable of working reporters to talk with. Cory bennet is with the hill. There. Rs cybersecurity Kate Tummarello works for politico and covers technology. Beyoud is with bloomberg b. N. A. Where she telecommunications. One of the biggest coming up are march. Ctrum in march 29 is the official tokoff date for broadcasts relinquish some of their spectrum. Theyll be looking to either go out of business or possibly into channel sharing agreements with their colleagues. And a few months after that, potentially, that will wrap up sideell see the wireless start. Were looking at other potential bidders as well, such as comcast announced today that they might also be bidding for some of that broadcast spectrum. Months of be several close attention on the f. C. C. And its auction. Months. Ou say several so most of 2016 well be talking orut the spectrum
Opportunity to leverage everything that is there not only in communications and the internet and technology, but how that is applied to, increasingly, to health care, the other jurisdictions, the fda, the nih. And so its very exciting, and i think that i have a skill set that fits with that and the leadership style that can leverage that. So i did announce my candidacy earlier this week and is will work hard at it. But itll be a long effort as well. And i look forward to it. I think the competition is very important, the competition of ideas the candidates have, and then members will take their decision. Host how would you describe your working relationship with your current chair, greg walden, on the subcommittee, and fred upton, the full chair . Guest i think we have an excellent relationship. We respect one another, we have, of course, weve served together for some time before i was the Ranking Member of the subcommittee. And i think that weve produced important legislation on a bip
Democrat from california. Some of the companies she represents in her district include facebook, googlele, netflix, mozilla. You recently said you wanted to be the new Ranking Member, the top democrat to replace the retiring henry waxman. Why do you want that position . First of all i think that the committee itself, the energy and commerce committee, which is one of the oldest committees in the congress, is really the committee of the future. Its jurisdictionses are so broad and so powerful and its very citing and so to step into that position, which is not easy to do, because you have to be elected by your colleagues, i think is an enormous opportunity to leverage everything that is there, not only in communications and the internet and technology but how that is applied to increasingly to health care, the other jurisdictionses, the f. D. A. , the m. I. H. , and so its very exciting. And i think that i have a skill set that fits with that and the leadership style that can leverage th
And this week on the communicatorsa look at some of the telecommunications and the tech issues that the congress and the fcc may face in 2014. Joining us are three working reporters on telecommunications, Matthew Schwartz is with communications daily, Kate Tummarello is with the hill, and Paul Barbagallo is the managing editor of bloomberg bna, mr. Barbagallo, lets start with you. What do you think on the fcc and the congressional agenda this year . Guest well, i think to start off spectrum. The fcc in 2014 and beyond will be intently focused on spectrum. Congress as well. We will have this month the first spectrum auction at the fcc in nearly half a decade, and well have another spectrum auction later this year, and the biggest spectrum auction, which everybody has been eagerly anticipating, the incentive auction of spectrum in 2015 as new fcc chairman tom wheeler has stated. So that is, as i see it, one of the bigger issues in congress and fcc on the tech front. The wireless carriers