Are Multiple Broadband Infrastructures Sustainable?

Is Infrastructure Monopoly or Competition the Future of Broadband?

Thursday, June 23, 2005

9:30:00am – 5:00pm

105 Jerome Greene Hall

Columbia University

New York, NY

PROPOSED PROGRAM

9:30-9:45 INTRODUCTION
Eli Noam, CITI
                        Bob Atkinson, CITI [Presentation]

9:45-10:45 REVIEWING SOME FUNDAMENTALS

Is Broadband Competition "Ruinous"? - Prof. Christaan Hogendorn,- Wesleyan University, Visiting Scholar – CITI [Presentation]

The Geographic Scope of Broadband Markets - Michael Kende, Analysys Consulting [Presentation]

Key Characteristics of Competing Broadband Platforms – Carol Mattey, Deloitte & Touche, LLP [Presentation]

11:00-12:30 INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS

Verizon’s Fiber to the Home – Dennis Weller, Verizon [Presentation]

SBC’s Fiber to the Neighborhood – Dorothy Attwood, SBC [Presentation]

Cable – Rick Cimerman, NCTA [Presentation]

Wireless – Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group  [Presentation]

Municipal Broadband - Alan Shark, Public Technology Institute [Presentation]

Moderator: Prof. Michael Botein, New York Law School [Paper]

12:30-1:45 LUNCH

1:45-2:45 USERS’ EXPECTATIONS AND CONCERNS

ISP - Dave Baker, Earthlink

Corporate Users – Lee Selwyn, Economics & Technology [Presentation]

Consumers – Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America

2:45 – 3:30 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES

Insights from Korea – Richard Levine, LECG [Presentation]

Insights from Canada – Lawson Hunter, Bell Canada Enterprises [Presentation]

Insights from Germany - Andreas Wuerfel, Deutsche Telekom USA

Moderator: Prof. Martin C.J.  Elton, Burda Center for Innovative Communication, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

3:30-4:45 HOW SHOULD GOVERNMENT AND INVESTORS REACT?

Investor Sentiment: Picking Winners and Losers...or Just Staying Out of It

– Jessica Zufolo, Medley Global Advisors, LLC

– Anna Maria Kovacs, Regulatory Source Associates, LLC

What Market Structure Should Government Assume?: a) Competition; b) Monopoly; c) Duopoly; d) All of the above.

- Brad Ramsey, NARUC

- Kyle Dixon, Progress and Freedom Foundation, former Special Counsel to the FCC Chairman for Broadband Policy

Discussant / Moderator: Keith Bernard, Telecommunications Management Group

4:45- 5:00 CONCLUSIONS

5:00 – 5:30 RECEPTION