Of the issues that will be faced by the Tech Community, congress and the federal government in 2016. We have a round table of working reporters to talk with. Corey bennett is with the hill, he covers cybersecurity there. Kate tummarello works for politico and covers technology, and lydia beyoud is with bloomberg bna. Lydia, one of the big issues coming up are the spectrum auctions in march. What can we expect . Guest march 29th is the official kickoff date for broadcasters to relinquish some of their spectrum. Theyll be looking to either go out of business or possibly enter into channelsharing agreements with their colleagues, and a few months after that potentially thatll wrap up, and well see the wireless bidder side start, and were looking at other potential bidders as well such as comcast announced today they might also be bidding for some of that broadcast spectrum. So itll be several months of close attention on the fcc and its auction. Host and you say several months, so most of
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Whats next . Guest well those hearings i think were very helpful at educating members of the committee and other members of congress and the general public about the importance of this issue. Interestingly we have already scheduled a hearing on encryption before the apple fbi controversy broke out to the publics attention and we were right thing pleased with the presentation made by all of the witnesses at the hearing but i think the number one thing that comes across is encryption is a good thing and a very important thing and we have got to find our way through this not be weakening encryption but by continuing effort to strengthen it and you only need to look at the problems that we have had with foreign governments, with criminal enterprise, with hackers stealing millions of documents from Government Agencies and alleys of credit card records from retail establishments, financial establishments to know that we need to be moving toward stronger uses of encryption and stronger encryp
Host whats next . Guest well, those hearings, i think, were very helpful at educating members of the committee, other members of congress and the general public about the importance of this issue. Interestingly, we had already scheduled the hearing on encryption before the apple fbi controversy broke out into the publics attention. And we were, i think, pleased with the presentations made by all of the witnesses at the hearing. But i think the number one thing that comes across is that encryption is a good thing and a very important thing, and we have got to find our way through this not by weakening encryption, but by continuing the effort to strengthen it. And you only need to look at the problems that weve had with foreign governments, with criminal enterprises, with just plain hackers stealing millions of documents from Government Agencies and millions of credit card records from retail establishments, from financial establishments to know that we need to be moving toward stronger
Of months. Do you have any regrets, or do you think its been successful so far . Guest oh, i think were in a very strong position and, of course, im thrilled that on june 12th the fccs order went into, went into place. So i think that were on strong legal ground. Of course, there was a challenge by opponents to delay the implementation, and the court denied that. And there is yet another challenge that will be heard, i believe, in december by the appeals court. But i think that were on very strong legal ground. And that first test, that first legal test and the passing of that, i think, was very important. And i also think that important that d that its important that senator markey and myself launched an amicus brief that was signed by 28 members and senators. And in that brief it was in many ways kind of a reminder. Both of us were there when the Telecommunications Act was written. We were both conferees on that huge legislation. And so we believe that, and stated so in the amicus br