. >> fcc chairman julius genachowski links u.s. economy and jobs growth with broadband high-speed internet. this is about 35 minutes. >> i would like to say thank-you to chairman genachowski for allowing us to put on this event. we are very excited to be talking about these topics and how they can help us to put forward. i have had the pleasure of knowing him for several years and have been very excited about the initiatives he has been pushing. we also have warren brown, the owner and founder of the washington d.c. area business with seven locations throughout the metro area. they are great example of how can work together to spur new growth for local businesses by leveraging technology in driving people from the on-line world into the on-line world. once again, thank you to those who are watching from a web cast votes on tv and streaming. i would like to speak for just a moment about living social and the roots of what it has. the company has been around for over four years at this point. we started as a small business, and we ha

. >> host: well, chairman genachowski in his press conference following yesterday's meeting of the fcc commissioners talked about the cost. and we just want to play a little of this and then get your reaction. >> guest: okay. >> i don't expect that overall consumer rates will go up as a result of this order as compared to not doing reform. so the reform, what we're doing to do eliminates hidden subsidies that ends up on consumer phone bills, it constrains the growth of the fund, and that growth would have translated directly into increases on consumer phone bills. >> host: mr. tauke. >> guest: i think the chairman is right. i don't think we're going to see increases in phone bills as a result of this order. the trend in the industry is down. your getting more service -- you're getting more service for the dollar that is spent, and that trend is going to continue. there may be a company here or there whether it's a bump up in one part of the bill and a decrease in another part of the bill, but overall this is going to result in less money being paid by the consumers to the industry for

julius genachowski is the chair of the f.c.c., and he joins me now. mr. chairman, what's bill shock? and what was the fcc looking for in the way of customer protection? >> well, bill shock is what happens when you open up your bill at the end of the month and you see a very, very large charge that comes from exceeding one of those limits that you just mentioned. >> suarez: do we have any reliable numbers on how often people do this over the course of a year? >> we've done a survey. consumers union did a survey last year. as many as one out of five americans, literally tens of millions of americans experience bill shock, charges of hundreds or even thousands of dollars that come from unknowingly exceeding data limits or traveling to a foreign country and incurring very high international roaming charges. >> suarez: your agency was about to announce new limits and then held off. why? >> well, our goal was to solve this consumer problem, and we said from the start that technology provided an easy solution. send people alerts before they exceed their voice or

[applause] >> good morning and thank you chairman genachowski. thank you all for joining us today and thank you to brookings brookings institute for allowing us to use your facilities. it is greatly appreciated. last week we had a fall show in san diego as many of you may know. i hope some of you are able to join us on the west coast because it really was a successful event. our shows our place for people to go to talk about wireless, what is happening now and especially what we anticipate for tomorrow. at all these, what strikes me as a number of of fixed editors and a variety of wireless products and services they provide consumers and businesses. it is everything from health care to education, to transportation and energy. there is no question that the united states has the world's most innovative wireless industry. we have the hottest selling devices first. we have more than -- 4g users in any country and as we announced last week at our show we now have more wireless connections in the united states than we actually have citizens. that is be

fcc chairman juliuu genachowski ssys that has to stop."here's always been a simple technological solution to this. send out alerts, text &por voice, as a consumer is approaching their limits and let the consumer panage theirrbills."the fcc has been looking into the issueefor the last year and establishing a new mandatorr rule for wireless carriers. but under a new agreement peached with the industry, carriers will volunnarily notify consumers when they are getting close to exceeding -&& free text or a voice message. "the idea is for texting, alert bbfore you reach your n limit and once you've reached your limit. and for international roaming, you'll get an alert once you've gone international and yyu'll be rooming on the network." rolling out the free alert system within the next year... all four alerts must be operrtional within the next 18 months. "so tterr arr 4 alerts- one each telllng you are getting close to your limit for voice, text aad data, and a th alert for internntionallroaming. those alerts will beebott before and after your

a great pleasure of introducing julius genachowski, chairman of the fcc.t comes out so clearly from steve jobs' life was his focus on products that bring benefits to people, real benefits to people, that have a real positive effect on our economy, and maybe above all else, products and services that delight people, that delight people, and these different themes are at the heart of what we're announcing today, taking steps to make sure that mobile devices continue to delight every american that uses them. communications technologies, for those of you who know who've heard me and us speaking at the fcc on these topics, are social to our economic recovery and long term competitiveness. communication technologies are at the core of consumer products used every day by hundreds of millions of americans in every one of those consumers deserves to be treated fairly. empowering consumers with the tools and information they need to navigate the rapidly changing technology landscape has been one of the federal communications commission's top priorities since i becam

president obama appointed julius genachowski to head the fcc so there was immediately a controversy whenlightsquared try to come before them as to whether there was some politics at play. >> host: is it illegal to work with people who are friendly to your campaign? >> guest: no comment is not illegal at all but i think one of the bedrock coverage of the issue has been around the premise that when barack obama announced his candidacy as a presidential candidate one of the things he said is he was going to and business as usual in washington and you know not let lobbyists have the run of the place and do these kinds of things. so, we thought well, given what we do at the center for public integrity, we have to look at what in fact happened with regard to major donors. >> host: did you find anything questionable mr. schulte and the e-mails between the white house and lightsquared that you would like to share? >> guest: well, we filed a freedom of information request act and got back a number of e-mails and a number of other records and we were a little bit surprised by the tone of the e-mai

federal communications -- also one of the bundlers was appointed to be the head of the fcc, julius genachowski. whether there was some politics at play. >> host: is it illegal to, to work with people who are friendly to your campaign or to your -- >> guest: no, it's not illegal at all. i think that one of the bedrock sort of our coverage of this issue had been around the premise that when barack obama announced his candidacy as a presidential candidate, one of the things he did was he was going to drain the swamp and end business as usual in washington and, you know, not let lobbyists have the run of the place and do these kinds of things. and so we thought that, well, given what we do as the center for public integrity that we ought to look at, you know, what in effect happened with regard to major donors. >> host: did you find anything questionable, mr. schulte, in the e-mails between the white house and lightsquared that you'd like to share? >> guest: well, when we filed the freedom of information act request and got back from the white house a number of e-mails and a number of other record

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i don't imagine the remarkable leadership of chairman genachowski appeared our internal team put together by the chairman worked mightily and expertly on a whole host of unbelievably complex issues. the data experts and wireline and wireless carriers, cheryl, sharon, carol comer becca, roots, jim, everybody on the two-page list spent many, many hours answering our questions and discussing our request and they were back by dozens barber typically brilliant and dedicated sec team. my commissioner colleagues spend weeks and months immersed in the tall weeds, taking hundreds of meetings, talking with one another in developing constructive proposals. these are advisers including andrew kronberg and commissioner clyburn staff, christine kurth and commissioner mick dowell worked long days, nights and weekends to make this happen. in my own office, margaret mccarthy and mark stone provided not only great analysis by previous suggestions for getting us to better outcomes. i should note all all of my staff felt the weight of this ml performed at the start of model. it is than professional after by

i don't imagine the remarkable leadership of chairman genachowski appeared our internal team put together by the chairman worked mightily and expertly on a whole host of unbelievably complex issues. the data experts and wireline and wireless carriers, cheryl, sharon, carol comer becca, roots, jim, everybody on the two-page list spent many, many hours answering our questions and discussing our request and they were back by dozens barber typically brilliant and dedicated sec team. my commissioner colleagues spend weeks and months immersed in the tall weeds, taking hundreds of meetings, talking with one another in developing constructive proposals. these are advisers including andrew kronberg and commissioner clyburn staff, christine kurth and commissioner mick dowell worked long days, nights and weekends to make this happen. in my own office, margaret mccarthy and mark stone provided not only great analysis by previous suggestions for getting us to better outcomes. i should note all all of my staff felt the weight of this ml performed at the start of model. it is than professional after by

from "the politico", fcc chairman julius genachowski succeeds in internet overhaul. this will be one of the topics we talk about this week on "the contenders" with a guest from verizon. a couple of things we will be covering today. bill clinton is in town, talking about clinton economics. this will be live on c-span.org at noon. rick perry is speaking at "the new hampshire paper" -- talking to "manchester union leader." go to c-span.org and set the schedule. vice-president joe biden is in florida tonight and he will be live at 7:30 p.m. on c-span2. he is campaigning in florida. finally, our continuing series, "the contenders," is live from new york city looking at the career of thomas e. dewey. our own greta will host the program from a suite of the roosevelt hotel in new york city where mr. do we watched the returns in white -- mr. dewey watch the returns and end of being defeated by harry truman. 8:00 p.m. on c-span. from "the guardian" newspaper in england. this is an "the guardian" newspaper in case you would like to read about all account. that's your calls on t

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> after yesterday's meeting, julius genachowski took questions from reporters for about 15 minutes. >> i will call and people. that's the rule. we have new faces today. we will start on the left. >> ask him want to mention one thing which i meant to say during the bureau which is we planned on moving to decisions on those sometimes in the spring. high, chairman. paul. on issue of contributions, do you expect any slow down given the election year we are headed into? >> i think you are asking when we're going to do contributions reform? we haven't announced the schedule yet. we recognize that's an important part of the puzzle, but as you can see we have had a team that has been working around the clock on this for quite some time. we haven't set a schedule or agenda for the timing. >> i'm with telecommunications report. there's been a lot of speculation, before you all major decision here that there was going to be some litigation based on this. in the last few days there's been a lot of pushback from -- specifically saying what they

and when you and chairman genachowski and mayor bloomberg unveiled the program in new york city this summer, the intent was for the plan to be operational in the new york and washington, d.c. by the end of the year. give us a status, are we on track for that, and how would you say the cooperation between the fcc and fema has been through this process? >> well, let me start with the cooperation of the fcc. the chairman and i have been working closely on this and other activities including the national emergency alert system test november 3th. and there's a lot of activities that i think we've built a good partnership of working in their roles of regulatory, dealing with licensed carriers and the broadcast industry, in our role working with the user groups and the warning systems. as far as i know, things are on track, but i'll go back and make sure we are doing that. one of the things we had hoped we are seeing is there was a time frame for industry to adopt as we published the rules the technology to do the plan so you had the personal location capabilities in cell phones. from my un