We will continue to update you as more details become available. The senate is out this week so on cspan2 we are going to bring live coverage of a number of events including a house hearing at 10 30 that examines the future of why your Communication Networks and how Technological Advancements could impact consumers and businesses. Host host welcome back. We are joined by congressman joe barton, a republican member of the house energy and commerce committee. Thank you for joining us. Later this week the committee will have the first hearing on the web site healthcare. Gov. Tell us what are your biggest questions . Guest my biggest question is why they put that much money into something that flat out doesnt work. Theres been lots of socalled which is over the years and other web sites in the private sector, but weve never had a website that almost no one gets through the first time without any problems. So we have the contractors this their stay and the next thursday the secretary Kathle
Providers they might want to offer storage type of philosophies to compete with amazon or other storage capacity. They also have incentives it easier to charge the differentiating out among the various people that want to use the capacity to make more money that way than to fill that capacity at possibly be charging them less because now you dont have to demand constrained. Some people are going to pay more for more like room on the airplane. They can charge some people a little bit more because some people value a little bit more comfort so whereas the average person would say i cant pay another 50 for this im just going to have to muddle along. Host you used to terms. Guest title 02 is the common carrier status. Guest host it became the proposal guest to classify them as Telecommunication Services. The providers are allowed to be regulated as common carriers under federal law. Guest kind of buried in the document is one sentence that says alternatively to classify them as telecommuni
Angeles. Well speak with an adult entertainer later a shout. Fan. January twenty oh five pm and washington d c i a mob and your art in america well ever since former contractor and were snowed in the one point seven eight million classified documents to the world is hearing the nsa is internal structure of president obama has been walking the fine line of political fallout. If each of the permanent justice last week the president finally address the issue and announced sweeping reforms to the way the National Security agency collects digital information. The changes included some more oversight by the executive branch the working National Security letters that forced private companies to hand over customer information to the nsa and an end to section two fifteen of the patriot act which allows the ball collection of medicaid. Now some say the president s reforms went too far. Others say they didnt go far enough with this historic speech enough to quell privacy concerns expressed by and
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
A life full of work, they have opportunity to engage in that. The 50 plus population in this country is growing rapidly and projected to increase by 21 by 2020 and those over 65 growing by 33 by 2020 which is just a minute away. All the communities of this nation need to go to work can find ways to keep this large and vibrant growing 50 plus population not only engaged but also connected. We would like to talk about the technology infrastructure, broadband, implications and impact to this population. Lifelong learning opportunities are very high on the list of the 50 plus population and they get an opportunity to study local institutions of Higher Education and intergenerational access to Public Schools and community facilities. Access to Public Services offered by federal, state and local governments, information on critical lifesaving and like enhancing benefits are online now. And those populations, those adults who have no access or who have limited access really value broadband an