Genachowski, Powell to Talk Broadband Friday

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Current FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
and former Chairman Michael Powell are scheduled to talk broadband Friday at a
Rainbow/PUSH symposium in Washington.

According to the group, Genachowski will
keynote a morning session on broadband deployment and the National Broadband Plan.
Among the panelists are Rudy Brioche, Comcast senior director of external
affairs and public policy, and a former top aide to then-FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein.

Among the panel's topics will be the effect of the BitTorrent
decision on network neutrality and implementing the plan. That is the federal
court decision that the FCC did not justify its smack down of Comcast over
blocking peer-to-peer file uploads.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.