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January 07, 2011 Speech/Testimony

I want to thank our hosts today, TechAmerica, TechNet, the Churchill Club, Stanford University, and the TRUST Center.

And I want to thank all of you for joining us this morning.

There may be some other people here, who, like me, can remember when Time’s “Man of the Year” was a personal computer, and, according to reports, most of that story was composed on a typewriter.

That was in 1982, well before terms like “cyberspace” and “virtual reality” and “social networking” would enter the popular lexicon. 

July 28, 2011 Speech/Testimony

- As prepared for delivery -

Good morning and thank you for joining us today. NTIA is pleased to be hosting this 12th Annual International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies here at our research and engineering laboratory in Boulder.

July 18, 2011 Speech/Testimony

Remarks by Lawrence E. Strickling
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
Internet Governance Forum--USA
 Washington, DC
July 18, 2011

-As prepared for delivery-

Thank you for the opportunity to speak once again at the IGF-USA. I want especially to thank Marilyn Cade for her work in pulling together the third edition of this meeting and I am glad to have had the opportunity to speak at each of these sessions.

July 14, 2011 Speech/Testimony

Testimony of Lawrence E. Strickling

Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce

 

Hearing on Internet Privacy:
The Views of the FTC, the FCC, and NTIA

Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Committee on Energy and Commerce
United States House of Representatives

 

July 06, 2011 Speech/Testimony

 

Oral Statement of

The Honorable Lawrence E. Strickling

Before the

Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

Committee on Energy and Commerce

Hearing on “Federal Government Spectrum Use”

July 6, 2011

[As prepared for delivery]

 

July 06, 2011 Speech/Testimony


 

I. Introduction

Chairman Walden, Ranking Member Eshoo, Vice Chairman Terry, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding the Federal Government's use of the radio spectrum. I am very pleased to describe NTIA's efforts to maximize the efficient and effective Federal use of spectrum and our work to identify and reallocate spectrum to meet the Nation's rapidly-growing demand for wireless broadband.

June 29, 2011 Speech/Testimony

-As prepared for delivery-

I am pleased to be here to speak in support of the draft communiqué on Internet policymaking principles.  While previous speakers have discussed certain of the substantive provisions, I will focus my remarks on a key process for Internet policymaking—the multistakeholder model.

The United States enthusiastically and vigorously supports the use of the multistakeholder process as the preferred means of responding to Internet policy challenges.

June 10, 1998 Speech/Testimony

Testimony of J. Beckwith Burr
Associate Administrator of the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce
before the House Committee on Commerce
Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection
on the Future of the Domain Name System

June 10, 1998

October 07, 1998 Speech/Testimony
Testimony of J. Beckwith Burr
Associate Administrator (Acting)
National Telecommunications and Information Administration

 

 
Before the House Committee on Science
Subcommittee on Basic Research
and
Subcommittee on Technology

 

 
October 7, 1998

 

July 22, 1999 Speech/Testimony
Statement for the Record
Andrew J. Pincus
General Counsel, Department of Commerce

Before the

Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations
House Commerce Committee

July 22, 1999


Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, for this opportunity to report on progress towards transitioning management of the Internet domain name system ("DNS") to the private sector.

June 13, 2011 Speech/Testimony

Thank you to NCTA for inviting me to speak here today.

I’ve had the pleasure of attending many Cable Shows over the years and I am especially pleased to attend the inaugural show for your new President and CEO, Michael Powell. I had the great fortune to get to know Michael when he served as a Federal Communications Commissioner back when I worked for Chairman Kennard and he is a first-rate guy. He is smart and knowledgeable and extremely curious but most importantly, just a really good guy.

July 09, 2009 Speech/Testimony

Chairman McIntyre, Ranking Member Conaway, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning on behalf of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) at this hearing to review the Federal government’s rural broadband programs.  An agency of the U.S.

October 02, 2009 Speech/Testimony

– As Prepared for Delivery –

Introduction

October 14, 2009 Speech/Testimony

– As Prepared for Delivery –

Thanks for that introduction. I have asked Karl Nebbia to join me on stage, partly to help me answer questions after my remarks but also to give him some recognition. Karl is the epitome of a dedicated public servant who has spent his career trying to act in the country’s best interests. Please join me in recognizing his efforts.

October 27, 2009 Speech/Testimony

I. Introduction.

Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison, and Members of the Committee, thank you for your invitation to testify on behalf of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on the implementation of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and the development of the national broadband map as set forth in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).