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Thank you all of you for joining us today. Pulling together great event as always. Items cap and do it im ator ofe Broadband Access initiative. Nice to see a lot of familiar faces in the audience today. So encompasses not pulling any punches they started off with a i to data mapping. We will jum into the discussion. But before we do i would love to have my panel introduced themselves, amanda kuester. Had a mavis Amanda Martin and impulsive director of the office of Internet Activity helping support all the bipartisan of a structure. Good morning im scott woods president publicprivate partnerships software and Technology Company and i were in the d. C. Office. And Ed Bartholomew senior outreach director ....
Technology policy summit. ■ [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, this is thanks very much to my panelists for being here today. Since this is tv, i want to point out todays panel really is a spinoff of last years panel we did exact same time on broadband deployment. We had one or two questions on full attachment with this you were spending it offnto its very own panel we had one of the stars of last years panel. [applause] todays more than joni and shoji. Anyway, thank you all for being here and for sticking around and being part of todays summit. Youve heard a lot about taxes over the day youre going to this is an important issue for a number of our members. And frankly theres a lot that has happened even in the trust the last three months. Honestly at the end of last years of panel i could have said join us at next year time, same bat channel. The truth is we have actually seen some modest changes to the pole atthment rules we wanted to walk ....
Awesome. Sure, let me just go on the other side. Got it . Everyones attention and welcome senator marsha blackburn. Many of you all may not know this, but senator blackburn, its hard for me not to say marsha. Weve known each other since we are from the same hometown. Thats right, which is the center of the tv show hometown on hgtv and and i can always say you ever watch■ hom garden tv . You ever watch the show my hometown. So my is my hometown. The young couple. Raise your hands if you watch home and garden tv my hometown, its pretty amazing. Its about a city, a town of about 20,000, like a lot of small towns and cities it was in decline. Theres a young couple who really wanted to revitalize the city they loved, the community they loved, and they were posting things on facebook and home and garden tv noticed it. And approached them, would you dog one of our fixer up shows like chip and Joanne Gaines in waco. So, social media that ....
Now our free mobile app or where ever you get your podcast. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Is coming up a discussion of the federal Communications Commission regulatory efforts on attachments by cabletelevision or Telecommunications Providers to poles owned by Utility Companies for this conversation is hosted by encompass during their communication and Technology Policy summit. [background noises] [inaudible conversations]udible] well, this is thanks very much to my panelists for being here today. Since this is tv, i wt to todays panel really is a spinoff of last years panel we did this exact same time on broadband deployment. We had one or two questions on full attachment with this you were spending it off into its very own ....