Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru
Host are against this week on the communicators is congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger. Shes a democrat from virginia in her first term. Congresswoman, get some legislation that was passed earlier this month. What was it . Guest i had a bill focused on five Key Technology and the bill passed 4133, and the premise of this bill is we are facing significant challenges with the future 5g technology and the United States needs a comprehensive strategy. This bill would require that we develop one. That we implement it and we work with our partners and allies to ensure they do something similar. Host who is the wii that has to develop this . Guest the executives, branch. So determining the focus of this bill is that were requesting executive branch, the administration, develop a broadband strategy, a national strategy, a comprehensive strategy and a public strategy so the recognizing the challenges, the threats as a might term them, that come from development of 5g in other countries
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. She is a democrat from virginia in her first term. You have some legislation that was passed earlier this month . I had a bill focused on 5g technologies and the premise of the bill is that we are facing significant challenges with the future of 5g technology, and the u. S. Needs a comprehensive strategy. Develop one, we implement it, so the bill would require that we develop one. That we implement it, and we work with partners and allies to make sure they do something similar. Peter who is the we . Rep. Spanberger the executive branch. We are requesting that the administration develop a broadband strategy, a national strategy, a comprehensive strategy and a public strategy, recognizing the challenges and threats that come from development of 5g technologies in other countries, that we from a government perspective or a private sector perspective and from a public perspective, understand these challenges and potential threats. And that we move to a pla
Host who is the wii that has to develop this . Guest the executive branch. Determining the focus of this bill is that we are requesting that the executive branch of the administration develop a broadband strategy, National Strategy, competence of strategy and public strategy so that recognizing the challenges and the threats, as we might term them that come from development of 5g technologies and other countries that we, from a government perspective or private sector perspective and from a public perspective, understand these challenges and potential threats and that we are moving toward the place of being able to ensure Greater Development of 5g technology here in the United States and that we raise recognition among the public of the challenges that exist within this space and that ideally we worked to ensure we are protecting American Consumers and companies and their data. Host is this a National Strategy . Nationalization of 5g in a sense . Guest a nationalization of 5g as the te
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