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      <td>TPI/Georgetown Event: The FCC's National Broadband Plan: The
Early Reaction</td>
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      <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date : </th>
      <td>Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:23:07 -0500 (EST)</td>
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      <td>Technology Policy Institute
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FCC's National Broadband Plan: The Early Reaction</span></b></p>
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Blair Levin to Kick Off Discussion</span></i></b></p>
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                              <div> <span
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Immediate Release</span><br>
                              <span
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4, 2010<br>
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Ashley Creel</span><br>
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 style="color: black;"><font size="2">Date: Tuesday, March 23,
2010 </font></span></em><span
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                        <em>Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM </em><br>
                        <em>Location: National Press
Club, First Amendment Lounge</em></span></p>
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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span
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Business and Public Policy and the Technology Policy Institute have
convened
experts from industry, academia and government to provide an early
reaction to
the FCC's  National Broadband Plan, scheduled to be released on March
17.  The participants will focus on the following major questions: <br>
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                          <li><span
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innovation and investment?</span></li>
                          <li><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">What are the plan's effects on
penetration to underserved
populations?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> <br>
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 size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Blair Levin, the
Executive
Director of the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative, will set the stage
for two
panel discussions.  Participants will include:</span></font></p>
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                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><font
 size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">James Cicconi,
Senior Executive Vice President, AT&T </span></font></p>
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                          <li>
                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Robert Crandall, Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution</span></p>
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                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thomas Lenard, President,
Technology Policy Institute</span></p>
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 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Kyle McSlarrow. President,
National Cable and Telecommunications
Association</span></p>
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 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">John Mayo, Executive Director,
the Georgetown Center</span></p>
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 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Peter Pitsch, Executive
Director, Communications, Intel</span></p>
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 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Lee Rainie, Director, Pew
Internet and American Life Project</span></p>
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                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gregory Rosston, Deputy
Director, Stanford Institute for Economic
Policy Research</span></p>
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                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Robert Shapiro, Senior Fellow,
the Georgetown Center</span></p>
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                            <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thomas Tauke, Executive Vice
President, Verizon</span></p>
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 style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Joseph Waz, Senior Vice
President, Comcast</span></p>
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