Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, this seems offputting to a lot of people. The way we allocate radio spectrum come and how we make Resources Available to the Wireless World we are in today, is fascinating, and there is a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio act. Primary actor Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. It is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, t
With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd