Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T

Starts: Friday March 06, 2009 at 6:00pm
Ends: Friday March 06, 2009 at 9:00pm
Event Type: Conference
Region: Greater New York City Area
Location: NYU Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer St, Rm 109
New York, NY 10012-1110 US
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Website: http://http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/
Industry: telecommunications
Keywords: Broadband, Deregulation, Net Neutrality, Open Networks, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Fcc, Economy, Stimulus, Innovation, Future, Monopoly, Bandwidth, Fiber, Internet
Intended For: Anyone concerned with our broadband future
Organization: Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) & Internet Society (ISOC) NY chapter

In 1984, AT&T, then the largest company in the U.S., was broken up because of the monopoly controls “Ma Bell” had over telecommunications. Known as “Divestiture”, we have reached the 25th anniversary of the AT&T breakup and it is time to look carefully and critically at the deregulation of telecommunications to evaluate the effectiveness of this important economic policy.

Open Infrastructure Alliance, (OIA) together with the Internet Society, (ISOC) New York chapter, is convening a series of panels to dialog on the deregulation of the telecommunications industry.

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    Brad Jenkins, Recreation Guru
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