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Posted February 16, 2012

The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson:  “We applaud House and Senate negotiators for doing something truly important to our Nation – successfully crafting major spectrum legislation.  Our company has been working on this with key leaders in both chambers for over a year, and the members involved should be proud of what…

Posted February 15, 2012

The following statement may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Vice President of Federal Regulatory:  “The current site-based licensing rules used for cellular services are outdated and administratively burdensome, not only for licensees but for FCC staff and the public.  We are pleased that the Commission is proposing a transition to a geographic-based licensing regime,…

Posted February 15, 2012

The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson: “While we will need to review the FCC’s order, we are pleased that the Commission was willing to work with us to focus on rules that give the agency visibility into outages that affect 911 service for Voice over IP subscribers.  We look forward to continuing to…

Posted February 9, 2012

Yesterday, Kevin Fitchard over at GigaOm wrote a blog post on my Super Bowl post, in which I highlight some spectrum lessons from the big game.  While he acknowledges that we need more spectrum in a tweet, I want to focus on a couple of points in his blog post with which I disagree.  Nonetheless, I…

Posted February 8, 2012 • 2 comments

Sometimes a blog just writes itself.  Other times, the beneficiaries of the FCC’s so-called “competition policies” write your blog for you.  And that is the situation I found myself in when I happened upon the transcript from this morning’s Sprint 4Q2011 Earnings Call.  To bring you back up to speed if you’re not a regular reader of…

Posted February 8, 2012 • 1 comment

The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson:  “Auctions should be open, not closed.  Any qualified carrier, including those on today’s letter, should have a chance to bid on any spectrum available in an auction.  This group, however, wants the FCC to stack the deck in its favor.  Congress is right to resist this…

Posted February 8, 2012

The Super Bowl.  There are many ways to calculate the scope and impact of the big game – both on and off the gridiron.  Here are just a few: $15,343:  the highest price for a ticket to the big game as offered on the NFL’s website; 11 million:  number of pizza slices Domino’s Pizza expected…

Posted February 2, 2012

By Xavier Williams, AT&T Senior Vice President of Public Sector and Healthcare: Yesterday, I participated in a great town hall event here in Washington to kick off the first ever National Digital Learning Day, of which AT&T is a proud sponsor.  For several months now, AT&T has been working closely with the Digital Textbook Collaborative, composed…

Posted February 2, 2012 • 1 comment

As reported in today’s Communications Daily, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt concedes Commission mistakes in the spectrum auction that involved NextWave, yet he is still pushing for FCC discretion in future spectrum auctions. The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson:  “As Reed admits, Congress gave the FCC discretion in the PCS C Block…

Posted February 1, 2012

AT&T spokesperson responds to comments made by former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt regarding spectrum auctions: “Despite Reed Hundt’s recollection, the FCC’s track record on auctions is not an unbroken string of successes.  In fact, Hundt’s tenure saw perhaps the biggest single fiasco of this sort, the PCS C Block auction.  In that situation, the FCC used…