Boucher, Stearns Meet with Industry on Targeted Broadband Bill

摘要

House Communications Subcommittee leaders met Thursday with ISPs and others about nnarrow legislation on network neutrality and the FCC’s broadband jurisdiction. Chairman Rick nBoucher, D-Va., invited Ranking Member Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and most of the companies that ntalked to the FCC behind closed doors on June 21, Boucher said. Attendees included AT&T, nVerizon, NCTA, Google and the Open Internet Coalition, industry officials said. It was “a nmeeting with telecommunications stakeholders to discuss the future of broadband and efforts nby the FCC to regulate the Internet,” Stearns said prior to the gathering. Boucher said last nweek that he thought the closed-door FCC meeting with industry on network neutrality nprinciples could be “very constructive.”