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Interference Testing Sleight of Hand, Part Deux
By Joe Marx, AT&T Assistant Vice President of Federal Regulatory Yesterday, AT&T submitted a formal analysis of the V-COMM Test Report that came out in mid-July claiming minimal impact of...
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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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Opportunity in the 600 MHz Band
The FCC’s Incentive Auction proceeding moves forward in earnest today with the filing of opening comments. The stakes are as high as the issues are complex. Freeing up more spectrum is critical to...
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Our Response to Superstorm Sandy
Authored by Bill Smith, AT&T’s President of Network Operations By all accounts, Superstorm Sandy was a massively destructive event that resulted in more than $70 billion in damage and caused...
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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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FCC Begins Transition to All-IP Interconnection
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-Tzu, The Way of Lao Tzu Over the last few years, discussion of the FCC’s role in IP interconnection has generated lots of heat, a little...
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Interoperability and the Thorny Issue of Interference
Every three months or so, the FCC’s 700 MHz Interoperability Docket finds its way into the Washington media. Given the recent announcement of both new and interim FCC Chairpersons and their coming...
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Working Toward an Effective Band Plan
Today AT&T, the National Association of Broadcasters, and Verizon jointly posted the following blog post. The TV broadcast spectrum incentive auction proceeding raises some of the most difficult...
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Supporting Public Safety Through Effective Spectrum Policy
In the Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2012, Congress made provisions to secure up to $7 billion to fund the deployment of the first nationwide public safety broadband network, or FirstNet. This...
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Revisiting Lower 700 MHz Interoperability
In recent months, there has been a renewed push to drive a regulatory mandate to address the interoperability issues that challenge the lower 700 MHz band. Perhaps acknowledging that a Band 12 mandate...
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Our Updated Privacy Policy
In today’s online world, many companies are increasingly using customer data to help personalize and improve the products and services they offer consumers. All of us are familiar with Facebook serving...
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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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