Telecommunications and Internet Policies: What's Hot and What's Not

About the Workshop

What is the overall state of telecom competition? Should regulatory policy be affected by Wall Street's loss of confidence in the telecom and Internet sector? Will "forced access" or "open access" to cable lines be required? Will universal service and E-Rate programs be increased or decreased? Is there a "Digital Divide" and who is responsible for closing it? Will Congress or the FCC change communications merger policy? What about anti-trust enforcement? Will broadcast and cable ownership restrictions be relaxed? What are government agencies doing to promote broadband access and infrastructure? Please join us for a discussion on key issues in telecom, Internet and IT law and policy today.

Moderator:

• Bob Atkinson, Executive Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School & former Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
  

• Dorothy Attwood, Common Carrier Bureau Chief, Federal Communications Commission
  
• Kevin Martin, Nominee to be Commissioner of the Federal Communication Commission, currently, White House, Special Assistant to President Bush on International Economic Affairs
  
• Thomas J. Dunleavy, New York State Public Service Commission
  
• Paula Ford, Democratic Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Communications
  
• Andrew Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project
  
• Michael Morrissey, Vice-President, Law and Government Affairs, AT&T
  

• Committee on Telecommunications Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Owen Kurtin, Chair, in cooperation with the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School, the Communications Media Center, New York Law School and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
  

• Please contact Owen D. Kurtin, Esq., Chair, Committee on Telecommunications Law, okurtin@salans.com, 212-632-8374, or Beth S. Noveck, Esq., Secretary, beth@bodieselectric.com, 212-918-5034.