House Communications Subcommittee Schedules Broadband Plan Hearing For April 21

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The House Energy & Commmerce Committee's Communications Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on the National Broadband Plan for April 21 at 10:00 a.m.

There is no witness list yet for the hearing, but if the FCC commissioners are to be among them, they'll need track shoes. The hearing has been scheduled opposite the FCC's April 21 public meeting (it starts at 10:30 a.m.).

That is the meeting at which it is launching the first of more than 60 proposals and inquiries to implement that national broadband plan.

The subcommittee will be focusing on the last mile (customer-facing) broadband service.

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.