that measure now before the subcommittee would direct the end tia -- ntia and the fcc to look up the spectrum and develop an inventory of each spectrum been in the allocations between 225 megahertz and ten gigahertz. the inventory would include the identity of both federal and nonfederal users have spent term and the types of services they offer at each spectrum band as well as the amount of views in each band on a geographic basis. when the inventory is completed, the ntia and the fcc would create a website in order to make the information gleaned from the inventory available to the public. they would report the results of the inventory to the congress and that report would include a description of information that could not be made publicly available for national security reasons. it would also include a recommendation of which if any of the least utilized lock suspect turned should be reallocated for commercial uses. the creation of the inventory is an essential staff in making available more spectrum for commercial and wireless services and meeting the extraordinary step of deman

this inventory and analysis will be performed jointly by the ntia and fcc and these agencies and our legislation are charged with the responsibility of looking at the entire wireless spectrum and determining the current use and also identifying possible components of the spectrum that could be candidates for reallocation for commercial use or possibly could be candidates for spectrum sharing using some of the new and very efficient spectrum sharing technologies in order to maximize the efficiency of spectrum use. we provide one year for the agencies to conduct this inventory and when it is presented along with its recommendations, it will provide a highly useful blueprint to the congress for taking steps to ensure we will be able to have the spectrum available for the applications. i would note last year for the first time the number of homes that do not have a land line service but have so phones exceeded the number of homes that do not have self owns the plant line service for the first time and the disparity will continue to grow as more and more homes become wireless more and mor

administration yesterday in comments filed to the fcc through the department of justice as well as from the ntia in a letter where the administration basically said that there is more need for competition, and you're talking about competition. i would love to hear you talk a little bit more as what you see as the competitive landscape today if there's not enough, and your thoughts on wireless. you mentioned something that was very much stressed by the administration yesterday and how the commission should consider the fact that the biggest wireless players are also the biggest distributer of fixed wire internet access, at&t and verizon. >> guest: well, you can't have enough competition. at some point markets could become saturated with competition, but i don't think that's going to the happen with broadband. really a priority of mine has been to look for ways to create more competition, and that obviates the need for regulation. on so many different levels. because if you have one player acting in an anticompetitive way or o some sort of inefficient way from the consumer's perspective, then pres

before they could be considered for grants under the ntia's grant-making program. ntia actually has the larger share of the $7.2 billion stimulus fund than does rus. and so, that requirement has now also been eliminated for round two, and it is possible at this point for a rural applicant to apply to both agencies and simultaneously be considered by both agencies. an award can only be made by one but consideration can be given by both. and i think that is a positive change. . . >> on one of the largest media acquisitions proposed in american history. and that is the acquisition by comcast of nbc universal. and that leads me into my next very pleasant task, which is to present to you this morning featured a presentation. for the presentation, we have two very well-known guests, and i want to thank both of them for taking time to join us at our annual state of the net conference. it's my pleasure this morning to introduce to you our murray, the deputy managing editor and executive editor online for "the wall street journal." and brian roberts, the chairman and chief

even what you call a shortcut seems like a fairly big undertaking. >> i believe that the ntia and otheron. many of our studies are already available publicly and can be independent dwrated into this database. it is not as large of an undertaking as it may seem. i agree it will be compiled on the national science foundation. the illinois institute of technology is undergoing a testing in chicago. >> mr. calabrese? >> i mentioned from my written statement that the costs have come down. for example, the british telecom regulator recently completed a nationwide drive test of their air waves. they mount device on the rooftop which we can do with the postal service, whatever. there is also a very expensive devices now to have a mesh monitoring network being field tests in the d.c. very, very soon by a company. we're hoping to have one on the roof of our building downtown. >> my time has expired, mr. hatfield. do you have a quick response? >> in my written testimony i said one of the things we could do is focus on those bans which look the most promising. second, well, why don't i just stop th

it can be a case developed by the cia, ntia or nsa or even ourselves, it goes national terrorism center the national counterterrorism center makes the determination as to which lists the individual be nominated to whether the no-fly, the selector the terrorist screen database. for domestic terrorists it is the fbi that makes the recommendation to the screening center as to who should go on that list. it is screened by both the contributing agency to the national counterterrorism center screens of the national counterterrorism center screens it themselves and finally the terrorist screening center does a followed screening, follow-up to assure there is sufficient identifying data and that the information supporting the person on that list supports the criterion for being placed on that list. >> i've gone over my time and i obviously have a lot more questions but i don't want to interrupt others. we will go through these questions and you and i may want to spend some time later in the week -- and by showing a list i will submit for the record, a long list and there will be submitted for t

it can be a case developed by the cia, ntia or nsa or even ourselves, it goes national terrorism center and the national counterterrorism center makes the determination as to which lists the individual be nominated to whether the no-fly, the selector the terrorist screen database. for domestic terrorists it is the fbi that makes the recommendation to the screening center as to who should go on that list. it is screened by both the contributing agency to the national counterterrorism center screens of the national counterterrorism center screens it themselves and finally the terrorist screening center does terrorist screening center does a@@@@@@k do you think we can do better by getting people off of the list? i heard somebody on a talk show the other day say it keeps getting stopped. >> in some sense, yes. if people do not belong on the best, they should be off for a variety of reasons. feres with their right. who would be responsible to that? is the nctc? >> in terms of international terrorism? yes. but also dhs in terms of the redress process when somebody files a complaint that they