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A Primer on Pumping
I’ve long thought that I could write a book about various absurdities associated with intercarrier compensation. But, as my wife has pointed out to me (repeatedly), there are no more than a couple of...
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FCC’s About Face on Roaming
AT&T has been a big supporter of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. That Plan recognized and highlighted the need for significant reforms in areas like universal service, intercarrrier...
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Price Regulation in the Buggy Whip Market
Throughout the course of this year’s debate over net neutrality and Title II classification, one thing the FCC consistently disavowed was retail price regulation of broadband. Indeed, price regulation...
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Unsafe at Any Rate
In recent blogs I have explored: (a) the FCC’s absurd practice of regulating the structure of long distance pricing even as long distance is rapidly vanishing as a distinct consumer service; and (b)...
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Clearing the Regulatory Path to 100% Broadband
In case you weren’t able to attend last Friday’s Free State Foundation event, you missed AT&T’s Jim Cicconi talk about what the FCC needs to focus on now that we’ve moved on (right?!) from the...
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Putting Broadband on the Map
By Jeff Brueggeman, AT&T Vice President of Public Policy Last week, the FCC officially launched the secret weapon in getting us to 100% broadband, its Universal Service Fund (USF) and Intercarrier...
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Panel Debates Universal Service for Broadband
By Joel Lubin, AT&T Vice President of Public Policy Last Wednesday, the Congressional Internet Caucus sponsored a panel discussion on the key hurdle to bringing broadband to all Americans –...
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AT&T Statement on USF and ICC Reform
The FCC officially began its process today to modernize its telephone subsidy programs, the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Intercarrier Compensation (ICC) system. The comments we filed today...
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