[Solar-general] Fwd: Webcast Tonight: 25 Years After the AT&T Breakup

Sab Mar 7 13:14:30 CET 2009

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Subject:   Webcast available --- Event TONIGHT -- 25th Anniversary.
MARCH 6th, 2009 TIME: 6PM-9PM
Date:      Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:12:13 -0500

FOR THOSE NOT IN NEW YORK CITY we've arranged a webcast.

ALSO

*** 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

For Immediate Release
(CONTACT INFO BELOW)

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

WEBCAST AVAILABLE: For those not in New York City, there
will be an available live web cast of the event.
http://www.communityfiberproject.net/stream/

Complete agenda and speaker bios at: -- SEE NEW SPEAKERS.
http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/

DATE:       * 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 en 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.

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?

-- 
Diego Saravia
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