Uncategorized Related Posts

Posted December 15, 2010 • 11 comments

It’s Christmas. It’s time to make merry. It’s time for some cheer.  Yet, inexplicably, Public Knowledge has suddenly adopted an anti-cupcake agenda.  For many years AT&T has provided sweets to policymakers as well as journalists and others, who we work with daily.  Used to be cookies, now it’s cupcakes.  We just figured that after being…

Posted December 14, 2010

April was behind the microphone, her voice timid at first but growing in confidence with each word.  She was singing “O Holy Night” and her rendition was beautiful. O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth. April is the wife of a US Soldier in residence…

Posted December 10, 2010

The blogosphere continues to churn over the Comcast-Level 3 kerfuffle.  Level 3 even saw fit to respond to this humble blogger in a press release (a comment on a blog, a response blog or even a to-the-point tart tweet I get, but a press release?). According to Level 3, I “missed the point completely,” in…

Posted December 8, 2010

The House Republican Conference today approved the appointment of Congressman Fred Upton as Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  The following statement may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T Executive Vice President of Federal Relations: “AT&T congratulates Congressman Upton on his appointment as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. With his…

Posted December 2, 2010 • 6 comments

When I read earlier this week that Level 3 was trying to elevate its peering dispute with Comcast into some kind of a major net neutrality gaffe, I immediately typed into my search engine the names Cogent Communications and Level 3 to see if I hadn’t somehow slipped into an alternative universe over the long…

Posted December 1, 2010 • 1 comment

Background – The FCC has announced that it will address proposed rules to preserve the open Internet at its December 21st Open Meeting. The following may be attributed to an AT&T spokesperson:  “The prospect of net neutrality regulation has lingered as a very real threat to industry investment and jobs for several years.  Obviously, AT&T’s…

Posted November 24, 2010

In recent blogs I have explored: (a) the FCC’s absurd practice of regulating the structure of long distance pricing even as long distance is rapidly vanishing as a distinct consumer service; and (b) the foolishness of extending obsolete interconnection rules to IP networks. Today, I will try to tie these seemingly distinct modes of transportation…

Posted November 24, 2010

By Charlene Lake, AT&T SVP of Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer In Europe last week, I met with inspirational people who are making an impact on their communities. In London, a main issue of concern for those I met with is the high-school dropout rate. Early school leavers (as is the UK term) who…

Posted November 23, 2010

If you’ve spent any amount of time in Washington, D.C. telecom circles you no doubt have heard AT&T shout from the roof tops that the marketplace for special access services is very competitive.  But the NoChokePoints coalition has sought to discredit these claims by characterizing them like Kris Kringle’s in the holiday movie favorite Miracle on…

Posted November 22, 2010

Last Thursday, I had the privilege of attending the Alliance for Women in Media event, “Honoring the Women of the FCC:  Past and Present.”  AT&T was the premier sponsor of the program which included a moderated discussion between former and current FCC Commissioners Mimi Dawson, Susan Ness, Deborah Taylor Tate, Gloria Tristani and Meredith Atwell Baker. …