PUNKCAST#1533 Has Divestiture Worked? - Warren Weaver Hall NYU

PUNKCAST#1533
Has Divestiture Worked?
Warren Weaver Hall NYU
Mar 6 2009
on behalf of
Internet Society - NY Chapter
with thanks to NYU

"A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T"

How does America get gigabit, open and ubiquitous, broadband telecom infrastructure?

The goal of this conference was to outline the history of the last 25 years, discuss the current market issues, then give a view of the future of broadband and telecom in the US that has been mostly untold in the media. It is a future that leads to ubiquitous, very high speed networks based on an infrastructure that is open to all competitors -- giving customers choice, lower prices and new quality products and innovative services. And widely acknowledged as critical for long term economic growth.

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PANEL 1 - Historical perspective
* Bruce Kushnick	An overview and leading financial indicators. What happened over the last 25 years?
* Dean Landsman * Tom Allibone	Consumers: telephony costs and other issues of telephony and broadband.
* Ken Levy	Living history, perspective from within FCC during the Break Up!
* Alex Goldman	ISP/CLEC industry: regulatory follies over the past decade
* Mark Cooper	The Failure of Market Fundamentalism in the Telecom Sector: How Deregulation Derailed Divestiture or The Operation was Successful, but the Patient Died

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PANEL 2 - The Present State
* Jonathan Askin	The legal/regulatory environment then and now.
* Dave Burstein	Broadband market roundup
* Joe Plotkin	Small business broadband needs, and surviving as a small competitive provider.
* David Rosen	What filmmakers and other creators need to know
* Carl Mayer	Privacy and the latest on the wiretapping case

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PANEL 3 - The Future State and Alternative Approaches
* Fred Goldstein	The current state of fiber optic networks. Are new models like Structural Separation needed now?
* Dave Burstein	Broadband market roundup
* Lou K.	NYC community fiber network
* Dana Spiegel	The future of broadband spectrum
* W.Scott McCollough	Legally rewiring telecom infrastructure: What is possible? Divestiture2? Separation?

Speaker bios are here. Thanks to a grant from the Internet Society copies of this are available free to libraries, educators, and other interested individuals. To obtain a copy email dvd@isoc-ny.org. Ask for DVD1533.

capture captain: joly
date posted: 3/19/09

Event blog: http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/

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