1. Presentation by Tony Perez to Seattle Citizens Technology and Telecommunications Advisory Board March 11, 2014

2. What’s at Stake Stephen Colbert Explains

3. Key Definitions Telecommunications – “The transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received”. (Title II) Information service – “The offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service”. (Title I)

4. Key Dates, Events and Cases 1999 AT&T v Portland (District Court) 2000 AT&T v Portland (9 th Circuit) 2002 FCC Classifies Internet as Information Service 2003 Brand X v FCC (9 th Circuit) 2005 SCOTUS Brand X Case 2007 Comcast Throttling of Bit Torrent 2008 FCC acts – Open Internet Principles 2010 Comcast v FCC ( DC Court of Appeals) 2010 FCC Open Internet Rules 2014 Verizon v FCC (DC Court of Appeals)

5. What’s Next FCC options: Reclassification ? Adjudication? Appeal? New Business Models e.g. Netflix-Comcast arrangement ? Use authority under section 706 of Telecom Act to promote municipal broadband