Host the communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We are going to show you some of the interviews were conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. And now joining us on the communicators is susan ness. Commissioner ness, what were some of issues you dealt with back in the 90s when you are an fcc commissioner . Guest peter, was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the length of the communications highways from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but with the service d not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards which is radio standard. My First Commission meeting we did band plan. It was an extraordinary time. And we were just given Auction Authority so we began the first auction at which point they actually used the hand placards to bid. So it was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we im
The communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology users. Joining us on the communicators is susan, what were some of the issues you dealt with back in the 1990s when you were the fcc commissioner . It was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the lanes of the communication highway, from analog to digital. That was cable broadcasts, satellite had been launched but the service had not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards, which are radio standards. My First Commission meeting we did band plans for pcf. And we began the first auction, at which point they actually used the hand placard to bid. It was an exciting time to be there. We also implemented the 1996 telecom act, which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in local telephony and video. And also radically changed
We moved all of the lanes of the communication highlighted and analog to digital. That was cable, broadcast, satellite and the satellites had been launched but the service had not yet begun. We did with the Digital Radio standard and my First Commission meeting we did ban for pcs and over an extraordinary time. And we were just [inaudible] speaking began the first auction at which point they used the hand placard to build. It was an exciting time to be there. Plus, on top of all of that we implemented the 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in the local telepathy and video and also dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast widening the ability to consolidate properties. Host looking back 20 years later, did you get it right to connect to the groundwork laid correctly . Guest some of it we did but keep in mind the other thing we did was what was so important cspan can appreciate this greatly is establishing the Program Requirements
Billion people. Tom it is nothing more than a states rights issue in the united states, the tension between the federal government and the 50 states. The size of the fiscal stimulus is extraordinary, way more than what we saw from president obama in 2009. Just as importantly, the impulse of the fiscal stimulus over the short term is truly at a wartime level. Francine we are also getting some e flow figures. This is the month of march, german business confidence, and the index is 86. 1 instead of the preliminary 87. 7. March, i dont know whether it still seems quite strong. I know we will speak ahead of the if a in just a second. It is not having a big impact on the so the ifo march is holding on. If you look at current conditions, 93. This was for february, so it is backward looking, it does not take into account a lot of what we saw. It will be interesting to see what the ifo president expects for the future. Tom lets get to the data right now before we get started. They did it is sim
I think there is a lot you can do. The world is also increasingly normal so increasingly what you do today, what you build, what you say can reverberate not just in this room but around the world. I look forward to the impact you are going to have on women in tech and indians all over. Your work at aei is helping the world, yes it is. She has given back. I want to thank all of you for joining us and invite all of you to join me in thanking sheryl sandberg. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] sunday democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton speaks that the mayors conference in indianapolis. We have live coverage of her remarks beginning at 4 00 pm eastern and later cspans conversation with democratic president ial candidate bernie sanders. You can see that at 6 30 p. M. And 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. This is something not only what i love to do but something that could be really different from the kinds of books that have been written in the past an