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Title: Predicting the Unpredictable - The FCC and the Future of Telecommunications and the Internet


1
Predicting the Unpredictable - The FCC and the
Future of Telecommunications and the
Internet David J. Farber Alfred Fitler Moore
Professor of Telecommunication University of
Pennsylvania And Co-Director of the Penn
Initiative for Markets, Technology and Policy
2
The FCC
  • What is the structure of the FCC
  • The Former Chairman

3
The Staff
4
How are decisions made
  • The FCC is directed by five Commissioners
    appointed by the President and confirmed by the
    Senate for 5-year terms, except when filling an
    unexpired term. The President designates one of
    the Commissioners to serve as Chairperson. Only
    three Commissioners may be members of the same
    political party. None of them can have a
    financial interest in any Commission-related
    business.

5
The new era
  • The new Chairman of the Commission
  • Mike Powell
  • What are the critical issues they face
  • Spectrum , spectrum, spectrum
  • Unbundling
  • Economic relationships
  • The internet!!

6
Politics 101
  • USA
  • Will the internet escape regulation
  • The reality of inside the beltway
  • Security and privacy may be the wedge
  • The legacy businesses -- will they give up

7
We Are at the Beginning of a Great Change
  • The next 10 years will be as wild as the last 25
  • Technology will change dramatically
  • All optical nets
  • Wireless of many varieties
  • Communicating computers everywhere

8
The Real Next Generation -- Optical Networks
  • Implications
  • Protocols IP?
  • Processor architecture
  • Software systems
  • Will it be a fully distributed system -- back to
    the past

9
Likely Future (2)
  • Megabits to the home and in the home
  • XDSL,
  • Cable,
  • Wireless
  • Fastweb
  • A challenge to the establishment -- the carriers

10
Broadband Access
  • Will it be open?
  • What does that really mean
  • Why worry

11
Mobility
  • Next generation
  • 3g
  • Claims lots of new services
  • Good data rates but at what cost
  • Spectrum!! And costs
  • Bluetooth, 802.11 and the like
  • How long can it exist in the chaos of unlicensed
    space
  • Should the FCC establish room for semi-licensed
  • The Electronic Bill of Rights for Radios

12
Security and Availability Will Be the Drivers
  • The current internet is vulnerable
  • Points of potential vulnerability
  • Service protocols
  • Commercial arrangements
  • Old software
  • Hard to design security in after the fact

13
Technology Is Easy -- Society Is Rough
  • Show stoppers or at least slowers

14
The Next Generation Internet -- Citizens
  • We are at a cross road
  • It could evolve to a TV structure for the
    citizens
  • Limited program availability -- just more TV and
    shopping
  • It could be Snowcrash

15
Digital Divide
  • Will we be two nations?
  • Will we be two worlds?
  • How and why must we bridge the gap

16
Nation States
  • Taxes
  • Culture
  • Rights

17
Individuals
  • Privacy
  • 1984 fears
  • Big government
  • Big brother
  • Big business
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