Summary: Panelists will examine the impact of the FCC's Open Internet Order and reclassification of broadband as a public utility and explore possible alternative regulatory regimes. What will the courts do? What should Congress do? What should a new Administration make its first broadband priorities? With the convergence of technologies, should the current platform-specific regulation be replaced with a more flexible, service-based regulatory scheme? How could such regulations impact developing business models and evolving technologies? How is the US faring against the rest of the world in the quest for broadband leadership? -- This panel was presented at the 2015 National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. -- Featuring: Mr. Earl W. Comstock, Partner, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC; Mr. Miguel A. Estrada, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Ms. Roslyn Layton, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Mr. Robert Quinn, Senior Vice-President – Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T. Moderator: Hon. David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. Introduction: Ms. Kelly A. Donohue, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP.
