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[ NNSquad ] TOMORROW/UPDATE: 25 Years After AT&T Breakup: Has Divestiture Worked?


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Complete agenda and speaker bios at:
http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/  


EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T


DATE: *TOMORROW* FRIDAY, MARCH 6th, 2009 TIME: 6PM-9PM

LOCATION: New York University, Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer St. Room
109.

PRICE: ADMISSION IS FREE. (RSVP requested, by email to: rsvp@bway.net
-or- Facebook, LinkedIn, or MeetUp ISOC-NY)


If you're concerned with the future of the Internet:

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

The goal of this conference is 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. 


*** NEW SPEAKERS ADDED ***

Carl Mayer, Esq.  The State of Privacy in the US.
Kenneth Levy 	  Former FCC telecom lawyer at the time of 
                  Divestiture.
Lou Klepner  	  The New York City Co-op Fiber Network


AGENDA (subject to change)

PANEL 1: 	Historical perspective:

* Bruce Kushnick	An overview and leading financial 
                        indicators. What happened over the 
                        last 25 years?

* Tom Allibone  	Consumers: telephony costs and other 
  & Dean Landsman       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

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

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?

* Lou Klepner           NYC co-op fiber network

* Dana Spiegel          The future of broadband spectrum

* W. Scott McCollough   Legally rewiring telecom 
                        infrastructure: What is possible? 
                        Divestiture2? Separation?

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For More Information:
Joe Plotkin
T: 646-502-9796
E: bwayjoe@bway.net  

Internet Society, New York Chapter
E: president@isoc-ny.org 
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