Good afternoon and welcome to the march 19, 2024 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Thank you mr. President. Supervisor chan, present. Supervisor dorsey, present. Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman, present. Supervisor melgar, present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor preston, present. Supervisor ronan, not present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor stefani, present. Supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you, the San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we rec
Worries about the Global Economy and how it might be affected by international conflict. Add it up and it was enough for the s p 500 to reach a fresh high before pulling back ending two points away from a historic close. After the closing bell, attention turned to the latest Quarterly Earnings from the tech bellwether and the most valuable Public Traded Company on the planet, apple. Apple made 1. 28 a share excludeing items and that topped wall street estimates by a nickel but revenue was slightly lower than forecast despite selling 35 million iphones, 13 million ipads and nearly 4. 5 million mac computers. They ended up 1 . Julia boorstin has more on apples earnings. What did you see snp. Well, tyler, for apple, its about the number of devices it sold. Iphone sales grew 13 to 35. 2 million showing apple is keeping ahead of rivals and thriving in brazil, russia, india and china where tim cook says shares rose. Its a different story for the number of tablets. It declined to 13. 2 millio
I am in favor of one but i have to say i probably dont need to be as delicate as mr. Cicconi may need to be. I think the fcc has been a little more slow i would say. So i would like to see them move quickly. And id think they would yield useful information but i dont want to see them used over a long time of watching the fcc. Sometimes i know when you see things like this they can be used in ways that he lay the ultimate decision making. That shouldnt be allowed to happen in these projects. You started by mentioning the interconnection of transition and i said this in my testimony with regard to vip interconnection. I dont think and im just assuming we will have the trial or not. Ultimately i dont think the fcc should presume that its going to regulate these interconnection agreements in the same way that it did. Its likely that there wont be any interconnection problem that hasnt been the case with your ip to ip connection to read theyve been very rare that theres been disputes that t
Entry. So you did not tested prior to october 1 . No, sir. Again that hearing you can see in its entirety tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. And yesterday the house energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and Technology Held a hearing on wired communications and internet protocolbased networks. Some of the topics discussed include the telecommunication laws surrounding those networks as well as the impact of Communications Advancements on consumers and businesses. This is a little more than two hours. [inaudible conversations] we will call the subcommitsubcommit tee on communications and technology to order and begin our hearing on the evolution of wired Communications Networks. Wired Communications Networks have come a long way since the days of the telegraph or the rotary phone. It is getting harder and harder to remember at a time when you wanted to reach out and touch someone ma bell twisted copper wires were the only option. Todays consumers have so many more optio
We all want competition, but what we want to have really is an environment, and, in fact, the digital revolution is enabling more competition. Thats why we have these, we have cable and wireless and fiber and all of these things are part of the digital revolution. But ultimately in a new act what would like to have, in my view, would be a standard that ties the regulatory activity of the agency closely to an analysis of the competitive marketplace. And then only if theres a market failure or consumer harm, and i recognize that if theres consumer harm theres a place for regulation. Im not, like mr. Cicconi, im not advocating no regulation. But we need in a new act to i to tie regulatory activity much more closely to an analysis of the marketplace. That really gets away from all this discussion about this technology and that technology and that type of thing. But the fact that technology is changing, and it enables competition, that is a reason for policy changes. Its not a reason to do