<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is already underway. Plenty of meat for telecom wonks! Spicing up the proceedings is the <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/01/8560363/cuomo-re-announces-500-million-broadband-initiative">$500m of Wall St fines</a> that Gov Cuomo has allotted to broadband upgrades. It's on a matching dollar basis, something that has caused some smaller ISPs to complain, claiming it discriminates on behalf of larger incumbents. There are no live captions, sorry, but NYS DPL promises a transcript by early next week.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;background:#ddd;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666;text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nydps/"><img style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid #ccc;" src="https://img.new.livestream.com/events/00000000004a4e0f/f14f9085-5090-418f-b781-e34c75bb18e8_170x255.png" alt="livestream" border="0"></a>On <strong>Wednesday - Thursday February 24-25 2016</strong> The <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.dps.ny.gov/">New York State Department of Public Service</a></strong> will hold a <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://on.ny.gov/1OuP1UI">Technical Conference</a></strong> in NYC to discuss their recent Telecommunications Study. The Telecommunications Study is designed to help the<br> Commission and the State Legislature identify areas where there may be market failures or opportunities to advance the public interest. The event will be webcast live, and that webcast will be mirrored via the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nydps">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.<br> <strong><br> What: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://on.ny.gov/1OuP1UI">NY DPS Telecom Study Technical Conference</a><br> Where: New York City<br> When: Wednesday - Thursday February 24-25 2016<br> Agenda: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://on.ny.gov/1p4pEVc">http://on.ny.gov/1p4pEVc</a><br> Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nydps">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nydps</a><br> Twitter: @NYSDPS <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40nysdps">https://twitter.com/search?q=%40nysdps</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"> </p></div><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#666;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em;padding:0;width:auto;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:0em;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-left:0"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8325#respond">Comment</a></td><td>   <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8325#comments">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px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