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Aspire to Success
By Charlene Lake, AT&T Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer American consumers are in the midst of a communications revolution, and AT&T is proud to be...
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AT&T on Modernizing Communications Laws
In case you missed it, the Progressive Policy Institute this week held a conference here in Washington at the National Press Club on the economic implications of the wireless boom. AT&T’s Jim...
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Coming Soon: Telecom’s 1.5Mbps Bridge to Nowhere
Tuesday’s House Oversight Hearing with the FCC Commissioners highlighted once again the ongoing debate on the special access issue. As a refresher, special access services are really not-so-special in...
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Building a Network for the 21st Century
This morning, we announced a very significant capital commitment to our broadband infrastructure. The net-net is that we are committing $14 Billion in capital to bring Internet broadband...
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Sprint’s Retiring Ways: What It Says About Encouraging Investment in IP...
Last week, Sprint confirmed that, beginning January 1, 2013, it was imposing upon its Nextel, non-CDMA iDen subscribers a $10 monthly surcharge in order to incent those customers to move off of its...
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AT&T Statement on FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force
Attribute the following to Bob Quinn, AT&T Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer: “Today’s announcement by the FCC to appoint a Technology Task Force to modernize...
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A Turning Point
Today, USTelecom filed a petition requesting that the FCC declare that traditional phone companies no longer possess market power when providing switched access services, or more plainly, “plain old...
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Establishing Effective Spectrum Policy, Part II
In the midst of a prolonged and deep national recession, the U.S. wireless industry has generated billions of dollars of investment capital, produced millions of jobs, and spawned a breathtaking array...
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Streamlining Telegraph Rules: This is Tricky Stuff
For anyone who thought that we didn’t need a comprehensive, focused inquiry on how to clear the path for communications to move from a TDM-based circuit switched world to an all-IP, broadband future,...
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Availability of Numbers And the IP Transition
FCC Commissioner Pai confirmed last week during his terrific speech at the Hudson Institute that Chairman Genachowski has circulated a draft order which would initiate a geographically limited trial...
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AT&T Response to the White House Announcement on Broadband and Spectrum Policy
Please attribute the following statement to Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs: “Today’s announcement by the White House is important not just for...
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AT&T to Deploy Broadband Under FCC’s Connect America Fund Program
Today, we informed the FCC that AT&T is willing to accept up to $100 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase 1 to deploy broadband to approximately 129,000 locations that lack any fixed...
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Modernizing the FCC: It’s Not Complicated
Remarks by AT&T’s Jim Cicconi as prepared for delivery at today’s Media Institute Communications Forum Luncheon in Washington, DC: It’s September in Washington, my favorite time of year. We all...
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Bringing America’s Classrooms Into the Digital Age
Yesterday, we filed comments in the FCC’s proceeding to modernize the E-rate program to meet President Obama’s goal of bringing broadband to every classroom in America. We fully support this goal and...
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Anchor Institutions or a Digital Bridge to Nowhere?
One of the most important issues that the FCC should examine in considering a proposal to expand its E-rate programs, is the issue of “dark fiber.” Dark fiber refers to fiber optic cable that has not...
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Accelerating Broadband: DAS Good
The following may be attributed to Jeanine Poltronieri, AT&T Assistant Vice President of Federal Regulatory: We write today to support proposed FCC actions to streamline and accelerate the siting...
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AT&T Response to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Future of Broadband Speech
The following may be attributed to Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External and Legislative Affairs: “Today, Chairman Wheeler highlighted the need for faster and better...
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Welcome to the World Of Title II Regulation
Occasionally a proponent of Title II regulation of Internet access will ask, in effect, what’s so bad about Title II? What follows is a cautionary tale about the absence of regulatory certainty in the...
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Title II Closing Arguments
Today, AT&T made a couple of filings at the FCC regarding its authority to reclassify Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers. Given that this decision seems driven by political...
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Thoughts on Today’s Vote
Perhaps I’m betraying my years, but in Washington policy circles there has always been tension between those interested in solving problems and those who see policy disputes as a test of ideology. I’d...
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