Has Divestiture Worked? Panel 1 - Historical perspective

The Internet Society - NY Chapter (ISOC-NY) & the Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) present a 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T

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.

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

EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
LOCATION: Warren Weaver Hall, NYU
DATE: Mar 6 2009

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 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

Speaker bios: http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/speaker-bios.html

More/Comment: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=618

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