During the two-day Summit, business and government leaders will define anddebate the trends, issues, and problems shaping policy decisions that willfoster or inhibit the high-speed Internet, voice-over-IP, and IP videosectors. The Summit's lineup has been expanded to include four distinctkeynote addresses.

FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, an ardent and tireless advocate of aclear national broadband policy, is slated to open the Summit with hisMorning Keynote on Thursday, June 12. Rep. Stearns, Ranking Member of theHouse Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, will presentkeynote remarks during the luncheon later that day. On Friday, June 13,FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch will deliver the morning keynote, duringwhich he is expected to discuss the latest broadband-related regulatoryactivity at the Commission. Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator forInternational Communications and Information Policy at the U.S. Departmentof State, will close the Summit with his keynote address Friday at noon.He is expected to address the spurs to broadband deployment, domestic andinternational, resulting from the U.S. delegation's successes at the 2007World Radio Conference.

"The Summit offers not only four outstanding keynoters but an exciting andvery informative panel line-up of expert thought-leaders in the broadbandspace," said Richard E. Wiley, Summit Chair, former FCC Chairman andManaging Partner of Wiley Rein LLP.

This year's expanded Summit program will include interactive debatescovering regulatory and legislative activity, emerging wireless broadbandapplications, broadband video developments, net neutrality/networkmanagement, broadband deployment, and forecasts from top Wall Streetanalysts. In addition, Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services unitwill unveil the results of its exclusive 2008 Communications IndustrySurvey: Views on the U.S. Economic & Regulatory Climate at the event.

The Summit will play host to a wide range of industry experts representingtelcos, cable companies, content companies, equipment providers, industryassociations, think tanks, and academia -- including:

--  Richard S. Whitt, Washington Telecom & Media Counsel, Google--  Joseph W. Waz, Vice President, External Affairs & Public Policy    Counsel, Comcast--  Gregg Rothschild, Chief Counsel, U.S. House Energy & Commerce    Committee--  Dana Shaffer, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC--  Gigi B. Sohn, President & Co-Founder, Public Knowledge--  Paul E. Misener, Vice President, Office of Global Public Policy,    Amazon.com--  Mark McElroy, PhD, Senior Vice President, Connected Nation--  James Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President for External &    Legislative Affairs, AT&T--  Mike McCurry, Partner, Public Strategies--  Christopher Wolf, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP--  Jonathan Banks, Senior Vice President, Law & Policy, USTelecom--  Kathryn C. Brown, Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development &    Corporate Responsibility, Verizon--  Richard Cotton, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, NBC    Universal--  Kathleen Ham, Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs, T-Mobile USA--  Daniel Mitchell, Vice President of Legal Affairs, NTCA--  Jeffrey A. Campbell, Senior Director, Technology and Trade Policy of    Global Policy and Government Affairs, Cisco Systems, Inc.--  Larry S. Landis, Commissioner, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission--  ...and many others.    

About Pike & Fischer's Broadband Policy Summit

The Summit is Washington's preeminent telecom forum for the debate andexchange of ideas about how technological advances, legal and policydevelopments, and changing business models are shaping the future of thebroadband industry. To learn more, review the entire Summit program, andregister, visit www.broadbandpolicysummit.com. Group, government andacademic registration rates, and sponsorships are available, as iscomplimentary access for members of the credentialed press. Relevant,published white paper submissions are now being accepted atcustomercare@pf.com.

About Pike & Fischer

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