The Innovators Have Spoken
In the past couple weeks we have seen incredible support for our merger with T-Mobile come from a large and broadly diverse number of high-tech companies that recognize the need for robust capacity to...
View ArticleSprint v. Sprint
By Wayne Watts, AT&T Senior Executive VP and General Counsel In my 28 years as a lawyer with AT&T, I have been involved in a number of major transactions. Each has presented different issues,...
View ArticleThe Facts Are In On Wireless Competition
The FCC released its 15th Annual Wireless Competition Report yesterday, and the Commission should be commended for the impressive body of work that the Report represents. The Report offers a rigorous...
View ArticleBringing LTE to Rural America
Late last month, 76 Democratic Congressional Representatives urged the FCC and the Department of Justice to give important consideration to the increased broadband wireless coverage that will be made...
View ArticleThe Facts that Matter On Jobs and Diversity
In a blog posting last week, Public Knowledge attempted to mount an attack on AT&T on two fronts: jobs and diversity. Faced with the unpleasant reality that those whose very mission is to promote...
View ArticleAT&T Response to Hesse Remarks On T-Mobile Merger, DoJ Lawsuit
The following statement may be attributed to Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs: “The CEO of Sprint said the Department of Justice should block...
View ArticleAT&T Response to FCC Staff Report
The following may be attributed to Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs: We expected that the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction would receive...
View ArticleConveniently Ignoring the Point: Sprint and Data Roaming, Round Two
“Broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century.” That is the opening sentence of the National Broadband Plan, and the challenge that the Plan spends almost 400 pages trying...
View ArticleAT&T Response to Former FCC Chair’s Remarks on Spectrum Auctions
Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs, responds to comments made by former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt regarding spectrum auctions: “Despite Reed...
View ArticleFCC Roaming Rules Save Sprint $15B in Capital Investment and Job Creation
Sometimes a blog just writes itself. Other times, the beneficiaries of the FCC’s so-called “competition policies” write your blog for you. And that is the situation I found myself in when I happened...
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