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Posted September 19, 2013

Remarks by Charlene Lake, AT&T’s Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, as prepared for delivery at the NOYS 2013 Teen Distracted Driving Summit today in Washington, DC: Javon, thanks for that warm welcome. Javon is no newcomer to saving lives. He volunteers his time training high school and middle school students…

Posted September 17, 2013

Yesterday, we filed comments in the FCC’s proceeding to modernize the E-rate program to meet President Obama’s goal of bringing broadband to every classroom in America. We fully support this goal and we look forward to working with the Commission to make it happen. The current structure of the E-rate program does not reflect the…

Posted September 12, 2013

Washington, DC: Today, Representatives Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) introduced the Permanent Tax Freedom Act. The following may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T Executive Vice President of Federal Relations: “Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Eshoo should be commended for introducing legislation to protect consumers by ensuring that the Internet remains free from…

Posted September 10, 2013

Remarks by AT&T’s Jim Cicconi as prepared for delivery at today’s Media Institute Communications Forum Luncheon in Washington, DC: It’s September in Washington, my favorite time of year.  We all pretend we’ve just gotten back from hobnobbing with the Obamas in Martha’s Vineyard, and we’re now ready to focus on the more important things.  Like…

Posted September 10, 2013

The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Vice President-Federal Regulatory: “Today, AT&T agreed to take definitive and concrete steps to bring interoperability to the lower 700 MHz band. Challenges in the lower 700 MHz band have left the 700 MHz A Block vulnerable to interference and largely undeployed. Now, under the leadership of…

Posted September 9, 2013

Last month, the California chapter of the National Emergency Number Association (CalNENA) sent a letter to the FCC intending to highlight an industry issue regarding ‘911’ wireless location accuracy. The letter says that a high percentage of wireless calls are being delivered to several public safety answering points (PSAPs) in California without enhanced 911 (E911) Phase II location…

Posted September 3, 2013

The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson: “Today’s approval of the AT&T/VZW/Grain deal within the FCC’s 180-day review period demonstrates that the secondary market continues to work under Acting Chairwoman Clyburn to ensure that under-utilized spectrum is deployed quickly and efficiently.  We are also continuing to work with the FCC on the ATNI…

Posted August 27, 2013 • 2 comments

The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson:  “AT&T is extremely disappointed at the FCC delay today on this small transaction.  AT&T is ready, willing and able to make significant network investments in these rural territories to bring HSPA+ and LTE services to Allied’s customers, an investment that will not occur but for this…

Posted August 20, 2013 • 2 comments

Today, we informed the FCC that AT&T is willing to accept up to $100 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase 1 to deploy broadband to approximately 129,000 locations that lack any fixed broadband service of at least 768 kbps/200 kbps. Last year, AT&T declined the CAF support that was available to it, due…

Posted August 13, 2013

Today, AT&T is filing an analysis by two esteemed economists, Yeon-Koo Che and Philip A. Haile, of T-Mobile’s “Dynamic Market Rule” proposal for the 600 MHz Auction.    The proposal entails a complex bidding scheme that is premised on T-Mobile’s claim that low band spectrum should be subject to its own separate cap, above and beyond…