On November 12 2014 Verizon EVP and CFO Fran Shammo spoke at the Wells Fargo Securities Tech, Media & Telecom Conference at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. In the course of a 37 minute interview he gave a broad outline of the company’s development plans, with a financial emphasis. Audio and a transcript is available.
Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/verizon-communications/verizon-wells-fargo-conference-112014
Download mp3: http://mp3.talkpoint.com/well001/111214a_ae/20_HRI2Q6I_audio.mp3
Transcript: http://www.verizon.com/about/file/4147/download?token=IyrH4I0u
On Friday November 1 2013 the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter presented a forum – Wireless 2020: Spectrum Crisis or Broadband Abundance? – at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington, DC. The event focused on the future of United States spectrum policy. The panel is Michael Calabrese of the Open Technology Institute, Charla Rath of Verizon, Preston F. Marshall of Google, and Afzal Bari of Bloomberg Government. Also speaking are Michael Nelson & Paula Boyd of Microsoft. The archived webcast is below. Click through to YouTube for an index.
View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/qIBJqGsVaug
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/97J2D9Ayah4V/
Agenda: http://www.isoc-dc.org/2013/10/wireless-2020-spectrum-crisis-or-broadband-abundance/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/381220748678556/
Twitter: #isocdc | #spectrum
On September 9 2013,  the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in Verizon v. FCC. The court is being asked to decide whether Internet access providers (Comcast, Verizon) should be subject to the FCC’s “Open Internet” rules adopted in December 2010. Verizon argues that the FCC doesn’t have statutory authority to regulate Internet access, because the Commission has labeled Internet access an unregulated “information service” rather than a regulated common carriage service under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It will also argue that Verizon is a First Amendment speaker that should have “editorial discretion” over Internet traffic that passes through its wires. A recording of the oral argument is available online today here.
Also on September 9, to coincide, over a dozen organizations including Free Press, Public Knowledge, ColorOfChange, Center for Media Justice, and Future of Music Coalition joined in launching the film.The Internet Must Go, a short online mockumentary using Colbert-style interviews with Internet luminaries to expose the absurdity of familiar arguments against net neutrality. View below.
- View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Pp1MAMkIa6A
- Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/wytd18O6CFbd/
Lastly, later that day, Professors Susan Crawford, Larry Lessig, and Tim Wu did Reddit AMA, celebrating the release of The Internet Must Go.
On April 27 2012 Susan Crawford gave a keynote at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. In her talk she gave a preview of the theme of her forthcoming book “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age”
Video of the New York Technology Council panel ‘The Pervasive Network‘ on May 3 2011.
MODERATOR
- Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism Professor and Tech Columnist, DNAinfo.com
PANELISTS
- Brian Higgins, Executive Director, Verizon Wireless
- J F Grossen, Creative Director, frog design; Instructor, Parsons New School for Design
- Jason S. Rosenblum, Director of Emerging & Mobile Products, Dow Jones
Download audio: [mp3]
Google and Verizon’s joint policy proposal for an open Internet is causing an ongoing public discussion. See details and links to commentary here.
Google and Verizon have issued a statement A joint policy proposal for an open Internet to address last week’s furor over network neutrality. The companies have published a proposal to the FCC, see below.
A teleconference with the CEOs of both companies is live-blogged here and here.
April 8, 2010: In the second event of the Annenberg “Art of the Long View” series, communication professor Jonathan Taplin discusses the future of communication with Verizon CEO and chairman of the board Ivan Seidenberg.
Google and Verizon have made a joint FCC filing on Net Neutrality:
Google and Verizon Joint Submission on the Open Internet
The New York Technology Council was founded by Donn Morrill, Paul Ellis and Ted Brown. Brown is executive director of the CUNY Institute of Software Design and Development and has spear-headed a program to place CUNY students into local technology internships by providing 1/3 of their pay, up to $1,000.
The organization is also working closely with New York City Council Member Gale Brewer, the chair of the Committee on Technology in Government who said, “we are always looking for ways to make this city more tech friendly to business.”On the business side, the New York Technology Council has secured Google, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Verizon as sponsors, and are working with IBM to finalize an official partnership.
In the short term, the goal is better coordination between the businesses, government and academic institutions already present in the city of New York.
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