The House communications and technology subcommittee has scheduled an Oct. 27 hearing titled “Common Carrier Regulation of the Internet:  Investment Impacts.”  Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R., Ore.) said, “We’re less than a year removed from the commission’s vote for Title II and common carrier regulation of the internet, and we’re already seeing the ripple effect of economic harm.”  The Oct. 27 hearing is slated to begin at 10 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

On Oct. 28, the subcommittee will hold a 10 a.m. hearing in the same room titled “Breaking Down Barriers to Broadband Infrastructure Deployment.”  Proposals for breaking down those barriers include “proposals would streamline processes for getting access to federal lands and utility poles, require smart dig-once policies that take advantage of existing roadwork to deploy fiber conduit, and examine the bureaucracy that impedes private sector investment in broadband,” the subcommittee said.

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