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EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the
Breakup of AT&T
Breakup of AT&T
DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 6th, 2009 TIME: 6PM-9PM
LOCATION: New York University, Warren Weaver Hall
AGENDA
Three 1-hour panels: Past, Present, and Future
Format for each panel: 2 major presentations, with brief commentary by real world practitioners. Q&A follows each panel (~10 mins.)
PANEL 1:Historical perspective:
Bruce Kushnick -- An overview and leading financial indicators. What happened over the last 25 years?
Tom Allibone and Dean Landsman -- Consumers: telephony costs and other issues of telephony and broadband.
Ken Levy -- Living history, his 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
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 independent provider.
David Rosen -- What filmmakers and other creators need to know
Carl Mayer -- Privacy and the latest on the wiretapping case
PANEL 3:Future . . . Alternative approaches:
Fred Goldstein -- The current state of fiber optic networks. Are new models like Structural Separation needed now?
Lou Klepner -- NYC coop fiber network
Dana Spiegel -- The future of broadband spectrum
W. Scott McCollough -- Legally rewiring telecom infrastructure: what is possible? Divestiture2? Separation?
Format for each panel: 2 major presentations, with brief commentary by real world practitioners. Q&A follows each panel (~10 mins.)
PANEL 1:Historical perspective:
Bruce Kushnick -- An overview and leading financial indicators. What happened over the last 25 years?
Tom Allibone and Dean Landsman -- Consumers: telephony costs and other issues of telephony and broadband.
Ken Levy -- Living history, his 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
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 independent provider.
David Rosen -- What filmmakers and other creators need to know
Carl Mayer -- Privacy and the latest on the wiretapping case
PANEL 3:Future . . . Alternative approaches:
Fred Goldstein -- The current state of fiber optic networks. Are new models like Structural Separation needed now?
Lou Klepner -- NYC coop fiber network
Dana Spiegel -- The future of broadband spectrum
W. Scott McCollough -- Legally rewiring telecom infrastructure: what is possible? Divestiture2? Separation?
Any chance this will be videoed?
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