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Posted July 29, 2010 • 1 comment

By Mike Bennett, AT&T Executive Director-Consumer & Government Affairs Did you know that during the last half of 2009, the wireless industry handled the equivalent of the entire catalog of books in the Library of Congress every single hour of every single day?  And that amount of traffic is projected to double each year through…

Posted July 28, 2010

By Celia Nogales, Assistant Vice President of Regulatory Today, CTIA – The Wireless Association, released an updated version of the “Consumer Code for Wireless Service.”  Developed seven years ago, the Code is designed to ensure consumers have the information they need in choosing and managing wireless services.  With the rapidly changing marketplace, consumers can choose from a…

Posted July 28, 2010

My previous blog post examined how a wireless provider like AT&T mobility ended up getting money from the Federal Universal Service Fund (USF), and why AT&T continues to receive money from a fund which it has been urging the FCC to reform for years. In this blog, I take a closer look at the USF…

Posted July 27, 2010 • 2 comments

Amidst the flurry of blogs and op-eds on net neutrality, Title II and broadband reclassification that cross my desk on a daily basis, it was a welcome and refreshing change to read Paul Misener’s piece that ran in CNET last week. Although I don’t agree with everything the vice president for global public policy at…

Posted July 22, 2010 • 1 comment

If, like me, you’re in a sports fan diaspora (i.e., you grew up someplace else and continue to follow the teams you rooted for when you were a kid), you’re probably familiar with the feeling you get when the local paper has a full-length article about one of your teams.  It’s a mix of excitement…

Posted July 22, 2010

Today, U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Lee Terry introduced the Universal Service Reform Act of 2010. The following may be attributed to AT&T’s Executive Vice President-Federal Relations, Tim McKone: “AT&T applauds Chairman Boucher and Rep. Terry for their determined efforts to bring the benefits of…

Posted July 21, 2010

Background – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today announced his intent to introduce the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act. The following statement may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T Executive Vice President-Federal Relations. “AT&T applauds Senator Rockefeller’s commitment to introduce the Public…

Posted July 21, 2010

By Susan Mazrui, AT&T Director of Public Policy On Monday, I had the privilege to participate in events led by the White House, in partnership with the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Commerce, highlighting the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the role that technology has played in providing a…

Posted July 21, 2010

In the FCC’s 14th Annual Wireless Competition Report, the Commission identifies three broad categories of non-price rivalry among wireless providers, including, (1) network upgrades; (2) product information and perception; and (3) downstream product differentiation.   With the launch of a new smartphone almost every month – the new Bold, the new iPhone, the Incredible – the…

Posted July 20, 2010 • 1 comment

The FCC’s conclusion that broadband is not being reasonably deployed in the U.S., on a national basis, based upon 7 million homes in rural America that would require $23.5 billion in federal subsidies to connect to wireline broadband, is an unreasonable conclusion.  Here is why. As a part of its National Broadband Plan, the FCC…