Tom Wheeler/Al Sikes – Competition in the New Communications Landscape
*This event is by invitation only.
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and Al Sikes, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Charlie Firestone, executive director of the Aspen Institute Communication and Society Program, will present a talk entitled “Competition in the New Communications Landscape.”
The Internet, satellite communications, wireless, cable, broadband access, net neutrality, social media, new communications technologies — they all find their way to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Tom Wheeler, the current chairman of the FCC, has spent the majority of his career in the communications industry, as the CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, president of the National Cable & TelecommunicationsAssociation and president of NABU Network, as well as a technology entrepreneur. He is the only member of both the Wireless Hall of Fame and the Cable Television Hall of Fame. Al Sikes, the FCC chairman from 1989-1993, spent much of his career in communications, including serving as assistant secretary of commerce and director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and as president of his own media company. Our panel moderator, the Aspen Institute’s own Charlie Firestone, has headed the Communications and Society Program since 1989, focusing on the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership, the impact of new technologies on democratic and social institutions, and the development of new communications policy models and options for the public interest.
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and Al Sikes, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Charlie Firestone, executive director of the Aspen Institute Communication and Society Program, will present a talk entitled “Competition in the New Communications Landscape.”