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  joly 7:00 pm on 01/30/2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: at&t, blair levin ( 3 ), deregulation, policy ( 26 ), pstn ( 2 ), regulation ( 2 )   

  VIDEO: Regulation and the IP Transition @GeorgetownCBPP #evofreg 

  On Wednesday, January 30 2013 the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a discussion Regulation and the IP Transition: Laying a Predicate for Growth at the National Press Club in Washington DC. Speakers included Blair Levin, and AT&T Policy SVP James Viccone. Video is below. No captions/transcript.
  

  Description: Broadband technologies power the country’s digital infrastructure and have become essential platforms for 21st century communications and commerce. One of the most important economic and policy issues facing the new administration is whether U.S. regulation of broadband platforms will help or hinder the kind of innovation, investment, competition and economic growth the country needs for economic prosperity. This event will explore whether moving from a network of switches to an all IP environment is necessary, and how regulators might create the right incentives for private investment.
  Presentation: John Mayo, Professor, McDonough School of Business (slides)
  Panel:
  James W. Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs, AT&T
  Jennifer Fritzsche, Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities
  Blair Levin, Fellow, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program/Executive Director Gig.U
  Moderator: Carolyn Brandon, McDonough School of Business
  Twitter: #evofreg

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  joly 8:07 pm on 01/11/2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ALEC ( 2 ), at&t, broadband ( 73 ), Bruce Kushnick ( 2 ), community networks ( 3 ), craig settles ( 2 ), fcc ( 59 ), fiber ( 21 ), telecom ( 7 )   

  Gigabit Nation interview with Bruce Kushnick on AT&T $14 Billion “Bait & Switch” #broadband #telecom #pstn #fcc #iptel #alec #att 

  In a segment entitled ‘An AT&T $14 Billion Bait & Switch? Why You should Care‘ on December 13 2012 Craig Settles interviewed Bruce Kushnick of the New Networks Institute. on his Gigabit Nation Internet radio show.

  Kushnick’s Law states:”A regulated company will always renege on promises to provide public benefits tomorrow in exchange for regulatory and financial benefits today.” In this interview he explains how AT&T’s recently announced plan to spend $14 billion to upgrade its network in exchange for a rescinding of regulation should be approached with skepticism, and how citizens and communities might respond to protect their interests.

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    joly 8:50 pm on 01/11/2013 Permalink | Reply

    Further Gigabit Nation editions that are worth checking out:

    *12/17/2012 Closing the Digital Divide in KC, One Neighborhood at a Time w/ Michael Liimatta, President, Connecting for Good
    *12/18/2012 Broadband’s Financial Impact? Local Government, Heal Thyself w/ Christopher Mitchell, Director, Institute for Local Self Reliance
    *1/9/2013 FCC – Impossible Maze Or Amazing Potential Broadband Ally? w/Sharon Gillett, former Chief of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau

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  joly 2:28 am on 05/11/2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: antitrust, at&t, us senate ( 3 ), USG ( 36 )   

  Webcast: Senate Hearing on AT&T/T-Mobile merger – today May 11 10:15am #antitrust 

  

  The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, has scheduled a hearing with the creative title: “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 10:15 a.m. It will be webcast live. Giigi Sohn of Free Press will be among those speaking.

   

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    joly 2:33 am on 05/11/2011 Permalink | Reply

    • 5/10 John Moe Will anything stop the AT&T-T-Mobile merger? (Marketplace) radio interview with Susan Crawford and Larry Downes
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    joly 3:26 am on 05/13/2011 Permalink | Reply

    C-Span video

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  joly 12:26 am on 03/16/2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: at&t, fcc ( 59 ), free press ( 2 ), open internet ( 17 ), public knowledge ( 3 ), spectrum ( 8 )   

  Open Net advocates petition FCC to kill Qualcomm AT&T spectrum deal #broadband #fcc 

  Open Internet advocates Free Press, Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, Consumers Union, and the New America Foundation have jointly petitioned the FCC that the proposed transfer of spectrum from Qualcomm to AT&T is not in the public interest and should be scuppered. The group recommend that, instead, the spectrum be made available to the public on an unlicensed basis.

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  joly 10:40 am on 01/07/2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: at&t, broadband ( 73 ), broadband plan ( 7 ), btop ( 10 ), Dave Burstein ( 3 ), ntia ( 10 )   

  Special Report: Why AT&T Isn’t Really in a “Death Spiral” 

  Dave Burstein’s entire article (original) is repro’d here for readability.

  It turns out that AT&T (and almost all wireless companies) have powerful incentive to keep wireline alive because the wired backhaul is crucial to wireless success. Although Randall Stephenson’s first speech as AT&T CEO was “We are a wireless company,” they are backtracking on letting the wired side die. Suddenly this quarter, AT&T and Verizon are massively promoting DSL. Wireless companies, they decided, need the copper to provide more bandwidth to wireless. DSL can thrive in a wireless world.

  That’s a crucial transformation that will preserve DSL/fiber’s role long into the future. It’s the path to “Thriving DSL in a Wireless World.” Wireless spectrum has important constraints and a crucial part of the solution is moving as much as possible over the existing wires. 40-50% of mobile calls are from home or office and can be carried via a femto or WiFi gateway. That’s the design of the AT&T, Verizon, and most European networks in the next few years, wildly accepted in the industry.
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  joly 3:25 pm on 12/30/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: at&t, fcc ( 59 ), pots, voip ( 2 )   

  AT&T to FCC: Let My Landlines Go! 

  The Federal Communications Commission is delving into the future of communications with a request for comments on an all-IP telephone network. Last week, AT&T filed its comments. In a 32-page filing, Ma Bell asked the FCC to eliminate regulatory requirements that it support a landline network and to provide a deadline for phasing it out.

  via AT&T to FCC: Let My Landlines Go! – GigaOM.

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  joly 3:11 am on 12/09/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: at&t, bell, broadbnad, citi ( 9 ), deployment ( 2 ), fcc ( 59 ), fiber ( 21 ), kushnick ( 2 ), oia ( 2 ), verizon ( 8 )   

  New Networks addendum to CITI Report on Broadband Deployment 

  FREE REPORT:
  The History, Financial Commitments and Outcomes of Fiber Optic Broadband
  Deployment in America: 1990-2004

  The Wiring of Homes, Businesses, Schools, Libraries, Hospitals and
  Government Agencies

  READ THE REPORT: http://www.newnetworks.com/FCCCITIbroadband.pdf

  The FCC tasked the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) to do “an
  analysis of the public statements of companies as to their future plans to
  deploy and upgrade broadband networks as well as an historical evaluation of
  the relationship between previous such announcements and actual deployment”.
  The FCC adds that the focus is on data analysis of “investment plans and
  deployment figures of upgraded broadband infrastructure in this century.”

  CITI’s historical evaluation only goes back to 2004. After talking to CITI
  we decided to create a separate report to cover fiber optic promises for
  the period of 1990-2004 because, in many states, the changes in state laws
  are still on the books for deployments and there have been current rate
  increases based on the previous fiber optic based-broadband deregulation.

  It is clear that billions of dollars have already been collected in most
  states for broadband upgrades of the Public Switched Telephone Networks, the
  utilities. If it didn’t go into the ground in the form of fiber, where did
  it all go?

  Besides the raising of local rates now being diverted to other lines of
  business, from FIOS and U-Verse to even wireless, there are the various
  taxes and surcharges, including the state and federal Universal Service
  funding or state based funds, such as the California Advanced Services Fund.

  None of these funds have been examined as a group, much less in specifics.
  If customers are still paying through local rates and tax perks to upgrade
  the essential facilities, shouldn’t the FCC be investigating ALL funding
  sources and then determining whether the issues, such as cross-subsidization
  of the ‘interstate information products’ or giving USF funding to companies
  who do not ‘need’ the money to be profitable, be examined before the FCC
  determines it needs to raise the Universal Service fund or give other
  financial incentives to pay for broadband?

  The FCC claims it wants a data-driven policy. We supplied the data — It’s
  now the FCC’s turn.

  Report filed with the FCC: Docket Nos. 09-47, 09-51, 09-137
  Contact: Bruce Kushnick, bruce@newnetworks.com

  http://www.newnetworks.com

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