with all due respect to my colleagues in telecommunications, telecommunications has not invested in research and development. the technology companies are usually invested in it and are in constant learning mode. one of the big issues is how do we engage local leaders in learning? the technology companies have to get engaged with this. a way to do it is they're all about reaching into mid market. you need to be engaged with local leaders at the rural level to help them understand how to use it. it has to get down into the organization and transform the way they operate, economically. the second set of stakeholders, and i have a great deal of respect for them, but they have been under the gun, and that is higher education. i was laid off from georgia tech a month ago because their budget has been cut and cut and cut. they have a huge commitment to getting out into rural areas and helping people solve technology problems. it does not was economically feasible. -- it just was not economically feasible. universities that have outreach as a mission, they have a public service commission to be out

telecommunications companies like eighteen temporizing that were working with the u.s. government the national security administration while back to wiretap overseas phone calls without legal warrant at the time so i think when you whenever you have government and corporate interests colluding like this it's not it's not only concern for national security but it's also concern for for users consumers are privacy has often been been hacked into phone calls have been tapped so we need to watch all sorts of telecommunications companies especially ones that get too close to to any government yeah it's almost one of those things where you don't want to adopt a misbehaving child one that won't follow the rules and you know do what all the other kids kind of you know do in terms of what that's expected last week to my attended a cyber security summit at the u.s. chamber of commerce here in d.c. and the chairman of the house intelligence committee congressman right mike rogers who was in that sixty minutes piece last night he spoke so let me just play a little bit of what he sa

service, interstate telecommunication services. they'll show up on your wireless bill, they'll show up on your home telephone bill. um, it's a program that has grown substantially. in 1997 when the fund was set up, it was about all told about three, maybe a $4 billion fund. today it's wolfe $8 billion. -- well over $8 billion. the amount that goes to rural telephone companies per se is about $2 billion, so it's about maybe 25%. other programs that are supported by this are, um, low income programs, the schools and libraries program, rural health care program. they support a lot of programs that have grown substantially faster than the small telephone company support mechanism. today it's not really much bigger than it was 15 years ago. all of the other programs have grown substantially. but i completely agree with that the user fee that we see is, it's too big. this program has grown a lot, and the collection mechanism is broken. it is completely broken. and the commission should have addressed this years ago. and it's, it's amazin

so it doesn't make sense to have telecommunications services regulated under title ii. it doesn't make sense to have wireless services under title iii, cable services regulated under title vi. in circumstances where regulatees are competing with each other to provide the same services. that is a very difficult question, and i wish there were something we could do from the fcc's perspective to make that transition an easier one. but the question lies in the first instance within the discretion of congress. and so should congress see fit to revisit the act, i stand to be a willing partner in that effort. >> republicans talk a lot about what the fcc shouldn't do. aside from repealing regulations, where should the fcc take action? >> guest: in terms of substantive areas or procedurally or -- >> substantive areas and also procedurally. >> guest: well, let me tackle the first one first because it is an apolitical position that i've taken on this which is that the agency should act with more dispatch. i've advanced a number of proposals that would allow the agency to respond m

national security issues posed by chinese telecommunications companies chua way and z.t. put together by the intelligence committee in the u.s. house of representatives at the center of the findings of potential security threat posed by chinese telecommunications companies with quote potential ties to the chinese government or military in particular to the extent these companies are influenced by the state or provide chinese intelligence services access to can tell a communications networks the opportunity exists for further economic and foreign espionage by a foreign nation state already known to be a major perpetrator of cyber espionage is talking of course about china there to break down the findings of this report and also to try to read between the lines a little bit i was joined earlier by tim carr senior director of strategy with free press. i think that the house intelligence committee looked at the the history. in particular the founder comes out of the people's liberation army there have been mentioned before on your show there been increased concerns about cybe

how are you working out to get the coordination of telecommunications, particularly in disaster relief where the cellular infrastructure may be broken down and not available to support? could you comment somehow are you going to work out this telecommunications problem. >> so from a perspective of fema, we not only have a defense officer appointed by dod embedded with us during a disaster but we actually practice and have communications interoperatability over our systems to be sure we can communicate with each other on similar platforms and also support state and local platforms, whether it was katrina or other events we've actually been able to bring in national guard platforms to provide 911 systems for cities that have lost those systems. we recently in the joplin tornados and also tuscaloosa tornados we brought in dod equipment to replace what was destroyed. from the fire side i know there's a lot of things you are doing to work around the interoperatability issues with regard to communications between fire and dod and maybe if ray or anybody else wants to speak to that. >> our co

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you have this telecommunications provider trying to provide a video. municipalities and the government should do everything we can -- they can to reduce those barriers. >> david, when -- davdi cohen was not concerned about google being a fiber threat. do you think that is an issue that there is not enough capital? >> i cannot say whether there is enough capital, but i can say companies have told me they are sitting on billions of dollars on their balance sheet. they are going to be more hesitant to make those investments in fiber deployments or internet infrastructure. it is not worth taking the risk if -- >> it has been a priority to clear the red tape. is there something the fcc is not doing right? >> there are several things the commission could do. the first thing is what i mentioned earlier. making sure we do not expand or extended the biggest it -- regulation -- is a simple concept that has brought applications across several different areas. the title 2 remains open today. we want to signal to the private sector that we were not going to take a

telecommunication system and extract information, could huawei say no?'d be very difficult for them, given the nature of their system. >> lewis: it's a different system than ours. here, companies are used to, you know, throwing their weight around and telling the government what to do. in china, a company is a chia pet. the state tells them what to do and they do it. >> kroft: there is no hard evidence that's happened with huawei, but the obama administration has been unwilling to take the risk. two years ago, when it appeared that huawei might land its first big american deal-- a $5 billion contract to build sprint's new 4-g wireless network-- the u.s. government stepped in. >> lewis: you had the secretary of commerce call the c.e.o. of sprint and lay out the u.s. concerns, say that the u.s. was really worried about huawei. and they would be a lot happier if sprint didn't do the deal. >> kroft: and sprint said, "okay." >> lewis: sprint said, "okay." >> kroft: since then, huawei has blanketed u.s. airwaves with commercials, and hired an army of lobbyists

kneuer used to be the administrator of the national telecommunications and information administration under the george w. bush administration, and ed paisley is also with us, a longtime journalist. he is currently vice president for editorial for the center for american progress' action fund. and, mr. paisley, if we could start with you. how would you describe president obama's overall philosophy when it comes to tech and communications issues? >> guest: i would include tech communications and science because i think all three go together. i think it's a mistake to try and separate the one from the other or the two from the other. the overall philosophy really is trying to figure out the best way in which the federal government can work cooperatively with the private sector in improving u.s. economic competitiveness in whatever range it is. and the administration's done a number of different public/private partnerships in a lot of arenas trying to boost our science and innovation capabilities, you know, as a broad philosophical focus for what he thinks of as a progressive agenda to he

telecommunications throughout the united states and i think that's what he's alluding to and there's been a battle royale going on in congress for months about passing legislation to give the. pentagon and the authority and homeland security the authority to increase this requirements on companies to. to to harden and to make make more prudent their protection or their so as you say as you say this is a there are there are some legitimate concerns as you say that if indeed a cyber apocalypse type would come as you say you know that they should be something that could be some cut off to water electricity all sorts of things could suddenly fall off the map but you know that the pentagon is thinking that that cyber crime is the biggest security issue at the moment and yet we've heard nothing about this during the presidential debates you think is it too difficult to sell a virtual issue to voters two weeks ahead of the election. i think people are not familiar with the with the concept there are they they don't quite understand what the concern concern is they they feel that the governm

is a large market in terms of telecommunications. both firms have seen an increase in sales of their mobile devices. the espionage peers have limited the companies being able to move into infrastructure networking. they had to unwind a purchase of a u.s. computer company because it did not win regulatory approval. one of the company's employees 1700 people in the u.s. revenue in the u.s. was $1.3 billion last year, more than double what it made in 2010. given this report suggesting the u.s. government should bar any merger of those two chinese companies in the u.s., it could have serious implications monetarywise. >> the european stability mechanism is replacing something that i don't remember. >> a big day for the euro zone. let's hope leaders had a restful weekend because it's going to be a busy week. the finance ministers from the euro zone all meeting in luxembourg today. they launched this new mechanism. it was supposed to kick off earlier in the summer, but there was a german court ruling to say that it was not against the cons

side, where with deregulation and the allowing of competition within telecommunications market, where it wasn't just local phone service by pac bell anymore. long distance and local phone service competition was an opt-in type of program. there was dissatisfaction with the amount of penetration that was achieved by competitors when that market was attempted to be opened up. so i think that influenced the thinking of the policymakers at the -- in the assembly and senate oversight committees that oversee electric telecommunications issues, because those are combined committees. back in 2002, when that happened, that is my recollection of the formation and dialogue that was happening at that time. that doesn't preclude us. the opt-out requirements don't preclude us from having a preenrollment phase, a phase that allows us to say, hey, this is the program we are proposing. who wants in. we can certainly do that. we are planning to do that, commissioner, so that as part of our education and notification we are really talking to folks who want to learn more and to participate in the program

on their candidates telecommunication agenda. then retired justice john paul stevens discusses the second amendment and gun laws. later the supreme court and fisher v. the university of texas. a case challenging affirmative action policy in college admission. >>> our goal this week is to look at the philosophies of both president obama and governor romney when it comes to tech and communications issues. and to explore any possible policy changes that could result from a second obama administration or a first romney administration. joining us in our discussion is john kneuer. he used to be the administrator of telecommunications under the george w. bush administration and ed paisley is also with us a long time journalist. he's currently vice president for editorial for the center for american progresses action fund. and mr. paisley tbb we could start with you. how would you describe president obama's overall philosophy when it comes to tech and communications issues? >> guest: i would include tech communications in science. i thin

>> tom: two of china's top telecommunications companies are a threat to u.s. national security. that's the conclusion of the u.s. house intelligence committee after a year-long investigation into emerging technology giants z.t.e. and huawei. huawei says the report relies on rumors and speculation, and the company warns a trade battle could cost the jobs of thousands of workers in the united states. but, as darren gersh reports, there is growing bipartisan agreement that this is the right time to get tough on chinese cyber-theft. >> reporter: in unusually blunt language the bipartisan leadership of the house committee warned u.s. companies not to buy their broadband networking equipment from z.t.e. and huawei. >> our advice to the private sector is this: your obligation is to consider larger data protection and national security implications of your business decisions and we would not advise doing business with these two companies. >> reporter: washington has become increasingly alarmed by cyber-security threats believed to have been launched from china. cyber theft of american t

congressional committees called for to chinese telecommunications companies to be banned from the american market. they pose a security threats because they cannot be trusted to be free of chinese state interest. the companies denied the charges. >> congressional officials have been investigating the two huge chinese telecommunications companies for a year. now the house intelligence committee has alleged that they may be spying and not to be trusted. >> they see to expand in the united states, but as a result of our investigation, we did not have the competence these two companies can be trusted with infrastructure of such critical importance. >> the committee sounded convince the chinese state uses as cannot on the grand scale against america. >> we started looking at the new threats that has been prolific in the last few years from the chinese government when it comes to cyber as spinoffs, human as panache -- cyber and spinoffs, human espionage. >> they are among the world's largest manufacturers of phone and tablets and a network infrastructure. it keeps the global network moving. thes

i think there is broad consensus that telecommunications and communications contribute to our national activity and standard of living. the real collision between the two philosophy is is what is the role of government with respect to these industries and whether or not one can take advantage of innovation, investment, consumer demand, a competing business models to drive these industries and whether or not it should get more heavy attention from the government. i think the that comes from -- i think that comes from a real difference in viewpoints about the state of competition in this industry. i think there is a viewpoint and a perspective that there is not competition among various market participants in the industry, that cable is a vertical and lanolin is a vertical, and wireless is a vertical. and they are fiercely competing with one another. and in that competitive environment, the role of the government should be to protect that competition throughout robust enforcement of anti- competition statutes, but not to manage that competition from a regulatory perspective. >> and also

executives at a major japanese telecommunications company appear to be dialing up the deal that would give them a major presence in the united states. nhk has learned that softbank is acquiring the third largest mobile phone carrier, sprint nextel. the purchase would spawn a global telecom giant. the negotiations are going on as the use of smartphones and other mobile devices is growing worldwide. sprint nextel has more than 56 million subscribers. nhk sources say softbank executives are in negotiations to acquire two-thirds of the total shares. softbank's total investment is expected to reach about $12.8 billion. both firms are providers for apple's iphones and both use a high-speed wireless communications protocol called lte or long-term evolution. the stronger yen is believed to be a factor in softbank's consideration in aspiring to buy sprint nextel. softbank executive are amay or may notally hoping to vastly expand their network in the u.s. where the market is showing considerable growth. if successful, the deal would lead to the creation of a telecommunications company with more

corporation such as c t or going to be dominating the telecommunications infrastructure of the united states to the detriment of washington however once again i think this is more hysteria than anything else all right historian and author gerald hall and joining us live from washington many many thanks indeed thank you. will do stay with us here on out if you can't have more news stories coming your way off to a very short break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale a show of oil is the norm or should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building ploy and not obvious sourced count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so if you were also became the heart of soviet military production closed off

telecommunications sector is a attractive area to foreign companies as it's worth some thirty billion dollars and keeps on growing but tim come the senior director of strategy for free press says the round with china could backfire on the united states. it's interesting to note that most computer equipment most telecommunications could mint is in fact made in china increasingly china is a player in the technology space and their ability to create cheap manufactured products should pose a threat to business interests overseas business threat not so much a national security threat politics definitely comes into play here seen in both the romney and obama campaign an effort to get tough against china this could very well be an outgrowth of that but also of concern is the idea of the marketplace for cyber security with their estimates that i've seen it but this is a multibillion dollar business so it's in the interest of a lot of these companies that provide cyber security services to inflate the fear it helps businesses that sell cyber security systems that sell systems that will allow u

my name is ann, and i direct the state broadband initiative of the national telecommunications and information administration, which is in washington, d.c. our agency and tii is part of the u.s. commerce department, and it is the executive branch agency that is in charge of advising the president on telecommunications and information policy issues. we are at the forefront of the obama administration's push to establish a broadband foundation needed to support the innovation economy in the united states. we are looking to produce better and new jobs and position to ensure that america remains at the forefront of the economy in the 21st century. we are working to ensure that all americans have the resources and the skills necessary to fully share in all of the possibilities, civic, social, and economic. all of these made possible by the internet. that is one of the reasons we are here today. he discovered for the administration is the broadband technology opportunities program or btop. this program was established in 2009 by the american reinvestment and recovery act and is administered by ntia.

ties to the chinese military report reads china has the means opportunity and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers told sixty minutes walk away if i were an american company today and you were looking at way i would find another vendor. if you care about your intellectual property if you care about your consumers' privacy and you care about the national security the united states of america unfortunately this really has nothing to do with china it's about our insane policies because of years of so-called free trade policies there are no longer any american alternatives beyond cisco when it comes to building telco telecom infrastructure in the united states that's insane this is a serious economic and national security concern whether it's a chinese company or canadian company the united states used to lead the world in telecom technology but in the last thirty years as reaganomics has forced our government to stop investing in critical infrastructure and open the door to monopolies foreign corp

corporation such as c t v or going to be dominating the telecommunications infrastructure of the united states to the detriment of washington however once again i think this is more hysteria had been anything else. but differences between obama and romney hard to distinguish saudi help old allies debates full third party candidates to any of their views next tuesday you can catch the full debate between the previous rounds witness a jill stein and gary johnson live here on our team. governor romney you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and you tube you get over to have a choice perhaps you wondered who to vote for what romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates october thirtieth. dunn has threatened retaliation and i led to deadly israeli strike on an arms a factory in katine tel aviv refused to c

. >> item two is a resolution authorizing renewal license agreement for telecommunication agreement from american towers at 99moultrie. >> thank you. for this item we have john updike. >> good morning members of the committee. john updike, director of real estate . this item seeks approval of a renewal license agreement for telecommunications at 99 moultrie, in bernal heights, surrounded by the park. i have a location map on the overhead for you. more specifically, the actually facility itself. you can see the existing tower and associated building that houses the equipment that serves that tower. this was actually a city-owned facility, along with the park around it. until it was purchased by at&t in 1961 through a condemnation action against the city. the park still remains a city asset. there's easement rights through that park. as a park, that condemnation settlement in 1961, the city retained certain rights to limited number of pieces of equipment through the tower and adjacent building. if the city required additional pieces then we needed to execute a second ago agreement with own

minutes did look into huawei and these allegations want to take a look now at a clip in the telecommunications world once you get the camel's nose in the tent you can go anywhere and there overriding concern is this that the chinese government good exploited walkways presence on u.s. networks to intercept high level communications gather intelligence wage cyber war and shut down or disrupt critical services in times of national emergency huawei is a business. in the business of doing business thirty two point four billion in revenues last year across one hundred fifty different markets seventy percent of our business outside of china while we is not going to jeopardize its commercial success for any government period well there you have it why is a business as he eloquently stated a very successful business so i mean doesn't it doesn't make sense and is that just logical that they they're not going to jeopardize that by you know even working for anybody or conspiring with the government. i'm not sure i buy his line i think that the chief executive of huawei is himself a former member of the ch

larry, i don't think there's any economy they're a great telecommunications company and also a directthreat to the national security. >> you said earlier you thought it was chinese companies doing cyber hacking on american bangs, say he ran from it and then they got the cyber hacking technology from china. >> i think everything is do it, from teenagers in lithuania to russian criminals. you name it. in terms of organized empties, i don't think there's any question. the chinese represent the principal threat to cyber espionage and reconnaissance and reconnaissance with a view toward the unlikely event if there was war between the u.s. and china. they would use this as an additional strategic tool of attack in the united states. i might add, larry, if i was in public office, i could not be talking this way. nobody wants a confrontation between china and the united states. in the background we ought to recognize, wait a minute, 20 years from now they are trying to create a global navy and air force capable of dominating the pacific out to hawaii. >> we'll leave it there. thank you very m

this is such an important aspect for it telecommunication. three d. is such an important aspect of telecommunication. >> programs here are interactive, see you can call up kareem abdul-jabbar about his book. this is his seventh book. the first one was back in 1983. he's been writing for 30 years. we welcome your questions about his writing and about his projects and what life is an author is like light in addition to his accomplishments in life. we will put the phone numbers at the bottom of the screen. we can also take your tweets and e-mails. look through the list, and there was only one woman. why is that? >> we picked her because what she did was so significant. there are other women inventors, of course, but she made a significant invention that has been widely used. it is the most practical for one, for us to use. >> the concept of this book, by the kids and the people african-american? are you targeting and african-american audience. >> i wasn't targeting african-americans alone, but i thought since all of these people came from the african-ame