Telecom Officials Likely on Deck for Next Week's Trump Transition Meeting

Telecom and cable representatives are expected to be a part of a Trump campaign transition team meeting in Washington Thursday, a communications industry official told us. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has rarely weighed in on tech and telecom policy, and unlike his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, he has released no agenda on the topics. The Trump for America transition team scheduled an hourlong “information session” promising “an inside look on the work underway on planning for the transition” at the Baker Hostetler law firm’s offices and featuring transition team leader Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, said an invite to the tech sector. Transition team member Andrew Bremberg, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and a policy director for the Republican National Committee platform committee this year, sent the invite. Likely attendees include CTA, the Internet Association, MPAA, Information Technology Industry Council and CTIA, plus people representing individual companies, said officials. Officials said this is the first big formal outreach from the GOP national election forces since a summer RNC meeting with tech and telecom stakeholders (see 1606060035). One suspected this Thursday meeting will be as large as in that earlier meeting, which featured at least 75 or so people. An official confirmed that room size range of about 75-100 people for the earlier RNC meeting and said that during it, attendees all offered their key policy goals. The Trump campaign didn’t confirm the event, nor did spokespeople for certain trade organizations in these areas.