Pai to Speak at Free State Policy Conference

FCC Chairman Ait Pai is the latest to join an A-list lineup for the Free State Foundation's annual policy conference in Washington, Broadband Beyond 2020: Competition, Freedom and Privacy.

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Pai will deliver a luncheon speech March 10 at the National Press Club in Washington. 

The other speakers include Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, FCC commissioners Michael O'Rielly and Brendan Carr, former FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn, Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Wilson, and Jim Cicconi, senior EVP, AT&T. 

Topics of discussion, according to Free State, include net neutrality, broadband deployment, competition policy, 5G, privacy, the changing video services landscape and the regulatory environment for all those. 

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.