**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**: **NEWS MEDIA CONTACT**:

November 5, 2008 Matt Nodine: (202) 418-1646

**FCC CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN TO PARTICIPATE IN FCC-NARUC JOINT
CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED SERVICES BROADBAND SUMMIT**

Washington, D.C. -- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman
Kevin J. Martin will participate in the FCC-NARUC Joint Conference on
Advanced Services Broadband Summit on November 6, 2008, at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Jose, California. The schedule for the Broadband Summit is
provided below:

**Broadband Summit: Connecting America**

**FCC-NARUC Joint Conference on Advanced Services**

**November 6, 2008, Noon to 5:15 PM**

**Atherton Room, Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market Street, San Jose,
California**

**(in conjunction w/ Wireless Communications Association Symposium and
Business Expo)**

**Introduction of Mayor Reed**: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin

**Welcoming Remarks:** 12:00-12:10 PM

Mayor Chuck Reed, City of San Jose

**Opening Statements of Members of Joint Conference:** 12:10-12:30 PM

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin

FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate

State Commissioner Larry Landis (IN)

State Commissioners Rachelle Chong (CA), Mark Johnson (AK), Krista
Tanner (IA)

**Opening Statement of NARUC Telecommunications Committee Chair:**

Commissioner Ray Baum (OR)

**Legislative Update: Broadband Mapping Bill** 12:30 -- 1:00 PM

Drew Clark, Executive Director, Broadband Census

**Presentation: The Future of Broadband** 1:00 -- 1:30 PM

Daniel Ballon, Ph.D, Policy Fellow, Technology Studies, Pacific Research
Institute

**Presentation: Supply and Demand-Side Drivers of Broadband Deployment
and Adoption** 1:30 to 2:00 PM

Thomas M. Koutsky, Resident Scholar, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal
and Economic Public Policy Studies

**Presentation: White Spaces: Access to the Future** 2:00-2:20 PM

Douglas Garland, Vice President, Product Management, Google

**Break: 2:20 -- 2:30 PM**

**Panel 1: Great Broadband Initiatives** 2:30 PM -- 3:30 PM

Commissioner Sharon Gillett, Massachusetts Department of
Telecommunications and Cable, presenting on Massachusetts Broadband
Initiative

Michael Ramage, Executive Director, presenting on Connected Tennessee

Steve Constantine, Director, GCI Medical Services, presenting on the
Alaska Telehealth Project

Jon Christensen, presenting on Open Range Communications

**Panel 2:** **California Broadband Initiatives** 3:30 - 4:30 PM

California Broadband Task Force: Joe Camicia, Chief of Staff, Office of
the Chief Information Officer

California Advanced Service Fund: CPUC Commissioner Rachelle Chong

California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF): Susan Walters, Senior Vice
President

California Broadband Projects:

1\. Stride Center - Barrie Hathaway, Executive Director

2\. The ACME Network -- Dave Master, Program Director, John Perry,
Development Director

3\. Pixley Connect - Dejeune Shelton, Senior Project Manager, and Maria
Velasquez,

Project Coordinator

**Demonstration: California Telehealth Network** 4:30-5:15 PM

Dr. Thomas S. Nesbitt, MD MPH, Executive Associate Dean, UC Davis Health
System, describes the California Telehealth Network, a grantee of FCC
Rural Health Care Pilot Project, and demonstrates live telehealth
application.

**Reception 5:30 -- 7 PM -- By Invitation Only**

***Reception sponsored by Google, TechNet and Wireless Communications
Association***

For additional information, contact Matt Nodine at (202) 418-1646 or
Matthew.Nodine@fcc.gov; or Robert Kenny at (202) 418-2668 or
Robert.Kenny@fcc.gov.

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