So, today is another “Day of Action” for net neutrality advocates across the United States. We are supporting today’s Day of Action just as we did last summer’s Day of Action. But also like last summer, we support real action – actual legislation from Congress that places the pillars of net neutrality into law and applies…
Read More Let’s Take Action and Enact a Federal Consumer Bill of RightsAT&T Blog Team Posts
AT&T Statement on FCC Order to Eliminate Obsolete Payphone Reporting Requirements
The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Executive Vice President of Regulatory and State External Affairs: “AT&T appreciates the FCC’s ongoing efforts to remove inefficient and obsolete regulatory obligations. As mobile communications have largely supplanted the once ubiquitous payphone, use of payphones and compensation to Payphone Service Providers (PSPs) has precipitously declined. The…
Read More AT&T Statement on FCC Order to Eliminate Obsolete Payphone Reporting RequirementsAT&T Statement on Introduction of AIRWAVES Act in U.S. House
House Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Vice Chair Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) have introduced the Advancing Innovation and Reinvigorating Widespread Access to Viable Electromagnetic Spectrum (AIRWAVES) Act. The following may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T Executive Vice President of Federal Relations: “AT&T welcomes the introduction of the AIRWAVES Act in the House…
Read More AT&T Statement on Introduction of AIRWAVES Act in U.S. HouseAT&T Statement on FCC
Wireless Emergency Alert Order
The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Executive Vice President of Regulatory & State External Affairs: “AT&T supports the FCC’s goal to improve the effectiveness of the wireless emergency alert (WEA) system by enhancing the ability of public officials to more narrowly target the intended recipients of alerts. The system modifications required to…
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Consumers Need an Internet Bill of Rights
The following open letter from AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, which is running in media outlets across the country today, reiterates AT&T’s support for the principles of an open internet and calls on Congress to create an Internet Bill of Rights for consumers:
Read More Consumers Need an Internet Bill of RightsWith Tax Reform, AT&T Plans to Increase U.S. Capital Spending $1 Billion and Provide $1,000 Special Bonus to more than 200,000 U.S. Employees
Today, Congress approved legislation representing the first comprehensive tax reform in a generation. The President is expected to sign the bill in the coming days. Once tax reform is signed into law, AT&T* plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the United States in 2018 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than…
Read More With Tax Reform, AT&T Plans to Increase U.S. Capital Spending $1 Billion and Provide $1,000 Special Bonus to more than 200,000 U.S. EmployeesAT&T Statement on FCC Vote to Restore Internet Freedom
The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson: “For more than a decade, under both Republican and Democratic Administrations, AT&T has consistently made clear that we provide broadband service in an open and transparent way. We do not block websites, nor censor online content, nor throttle or degrade traffic based on the content, nor…
Read More AT&T Statement on FCC Vote to Restore Internet FreedomAT&T Statement on Removing Barriers to Utilizing Twilight Towers to Deploy Broadband
The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Executive Vice President of Regulatory & State External Affairs: “Today, after more than 15 years of uncertainty around utilizing Twilight Towers for broadband deployment, the FCC is moving forward with a solution that addresses historic preservation concerns while at the same time removing unnecessary regulatory barriers. …
Read More AT&T Statement on Removing Barriers to Utilizing Twilight Towers to Deploy BroadbandHalf a Century Later – An Alternative to TTY
By Linda Vandeloop, AT&T Assistant Vice President of Federal Regulatory In the 1960’s, TTY was first introduced. At the time, it was revolutionary. People who were deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or had a speech disability could finally communicate with friends, family and 911 operators – either directly in a TTY-to-TTY session, or indirectly through…
Read More Half a Century Later – An Alternative to TTYReports of the Internet’s Impending Death are Grossly Exaggerated
Over the past week, there has been a lot written about what happens to the internet assuming the FCC adopts the proposed order, circulated last Wednesday, at its next scheduled open meeting. I would suggest that most of what has been written falls in the category of misinformation and rhetorical excess. I thought I might…
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