{"id":145214,"date":"2010-01-05T18:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=89550"},"modified":"2010-01-05T18:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:40:35","slug":"gigaom-special-event-fcc-chairman-julius-genachowski-to-talk-broadband-policy-wednesday-at-10am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145214","title":{"rendered":"GigaOM Special Event: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to Talk Broadband Policy Wednesday at 10AM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Broadband is the technology behind this era’s industrial revolution<\/a>, driving the creation of new companies, the destruction of existing business models, and putting a world of information at consumers’ fingertips in the home or on the go. However, up until President Barack Obama made nationwide access part of his economic recovery plan<\/a>, the regulatory side of broadband wasn’t something people paid a lot of attention to. But now net neutrality<\/a>, disappearing landlines<\/a>, cable disputes<\/a>, the National Broadband Plan<\/a>, Google Voice and Apple’s stance on app approvals<\/a> are big stories, influenced partly by an activist Federal Communications Commission<\/a> that is delving into broadband access<\/a>, competition and innovation<\/a>. Those stories are hot also because broadband plays more of a role in our day-to-day lives, which means people outside of the telecommunications lobbying world are taking notice.<\/p>\n

To help Silicon Valley learn more about these changes, we’re hosting FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at our offices on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 10 a.m. PT for an hour-long GigaOM forum. Doors for this limited-seating event will open at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

Om and I will interview the chairman, as well as give members of our audience the opportunity to ask a few questions. We have a few seats left, so if anyone wants to attend you can send a note to events@gigaom.com with “FCC FORUM” in the subject line. If we can accommodate your request we will. We are going to be live streaming the event as well.<\/p>\n

If you can’t make it to the event, tweet me your questions beforehand to @gigastacey or @om shoot me an email to my first name@ gigaom.com.<\/p>\n

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