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Posted February 3, 2011

Like a climb up Mount Everest, finding new spectrum allocations for commercial wireless broadband use is extremely challenging. Those who have spectrum want to keep it, and the low hanging fruit has already been allocated…base camp has been reached. The President, Congress and the FCC have all made it clear that additional spectrum is necessary…

Posted February 1, 2011 • 2 comments

In a town that rarely sees agreement, there is now broad consensus regarding U.S. wireless broadband demand trends and the need to ensure that America keeps pace with the global wireless revolution.  And almost everyone agrees that the key component to meeting exploding consumer demand for wireless data services is more spectrum.  Almost everyone, that…

Posted January 28, 2011

It’s National Data Privacy Day and what better way to celebrate than to look at the progress on privacy made yesterday by our friends at GSMA – the association representing the worldwide mobile communications industry.  We have been pleased to work with the GSMA folks and other industry members to develop a set of universal…

Posted January 28, 2011

Last week, AT&T’s Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso delivered a lively keynote on cybersecurity at the State of the Net Conference in Washington, D.C.  If you weren’t able to attend in person, check out these video clips from his speech. Are we all a security risk? Here’s Ed addressing how we…

Posted January 25, 2011

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, reintroduced the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act (S. 28).  The following statement may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T Executive Vice President-Federal Relations: “Chairman Rockefeller has long made public safety and national security a…

Posted January 17, 2011 • 1 comment

Last week, I spoke at the National Archives to mark the completion of a unique project to preserve the most important records of President John F. Kennedy in a digital format.  This project will enable scholars, students, and ordinary Americans to access the most fascinating documents and records of a presidency which had profound impact…

Posted January 12, 2011 • 2 comments

For those six tech policy folks who were not able to trek to the Consumer Electronics Show in the desert last week, we have compiled some video clips for you.  And, no, we did not include any footage of our activity at the tables!  These are some highlights from the net neutrality panel last Thursday….

Posted December 21, 2010 • 3 comments

For far too long, the question of net neutrality has hamstrung the FCC and prevented needed action on far more urgent, and real, problems.  Today’s vote, we trust, will put this issue behind us with a compromise that appears to balance major differences despite a number of lingering concerns. We appreciate the views expressed publicly…

Posted December 17, 2010 • 4 comments

Since November 30th, Level 3 has made five filings in the FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding in which it raised “net neutrality” concerns about the agreement it had previously reached to purchase connectivity from Comcast.  Yesterday, Level 3’s CEO sent another letter to the FCC and the Department of Justice in which he urged the FCC…

Posted December 16, 2010

By Ellen Blackler, AT&T Executive Director – Public Policy I hope I’m not jinxing it by mentioning it, but there is a quiet and promising consensus emerging.  And, no, I’m not referring to the long-running debate surrounding the FCC’s Open Internet proceeding…We won’t know how that story goes until next Tuesday. What I’m referring to…