Communications Policy and Looking to the Future: A Fireside Chat with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell

October 2011

Past Event

Communications Policy and Looking to the Future: A Fireside Chat with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

October 06, 2011

October 2011

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

Harold Furchtgott-Roth,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Economics of the Internet

Robert McDowell,

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

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