Posted by: AT&T Blog Team on January 26, 2012 at 10:17 am
By Eric Loeb, AT&T Vice President of International External Affairs
While many people may not have heard of it yet, there is a critically important global meeting happening later this year in Dubai. Known as the WCIT, the World Conference on International Telecommunications is crucial because it will revise the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs), which essentially lay out the ground rules for the global interoperability of networks and exchange of telecom traffic between borders.
The WCIT, which falls under the umbrella of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), will mark the first time the ITRs have been revised since they were established 24 years ago.
The process for revising the ITRs began back in 2006 when it was decided by the Plenipotentiary Conference that the ITRs needed to be reviewed. AT&T was there six years ago and we have been working hard with the United States Government and industry throughout. As one way to help people understand this important process, on behalf of AT&T, I have been working as chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Task Force on Internet and Telecoms Infrastructure and Services (ITIS) along with the 120-country business community membership of the ICC as it prepared its views on successful ITRs. Just last week, the Task Force released a paper outlining the ICC’s views and recommendations to ensure that global telecom markets continue to grow and develop.
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Posted by: AT&T Blog Team on December 9, 2011 at 11:05 am
By Len Cali, AT&T Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy
Did you know that one quarter of the U.S. population consists of people who are elderly, have a disability, or both? And 30% of households in this country have a family member with a disability. With our aging population, roughly 10,000 people turn 65 every day. And this trend is expected to continue for the next two decades. Think about that. This is a significant number of Americans whose appetite for mobile broadband technologies is just as voracious as the rest of the population.
This week, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote address at the M-Enabling Summit held here in Washington D.C. This was the first industry event dedicated exclusively to exploring accessible and assistive mobile platforms to better serve seniors and persons with disabilities.
Our philosophy at AT&T has always been to design products and services that benefit as many people as possible. And our Universal Design policy provides our suppliers and internal stakeholders with a clear set of guidelines that enable us to bring accessible products and services to the marketplace.
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Posted by: Joan Marsh on June 28, 2011 at 5:40 pm
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 analysis of competition within multiple sectors of the wireless marketplace and highlights several key trends. The results are impressive – and they clearly portray a competitive and innovative U.S. wireless marketplace that is delivering incredible value for U.S. wireless consumers.
Importantly, the Report relies as its bedrock on an impressive compendium of facts and hard data on various aspects of the wireless industry. And taken as whole, the Report offers a decisive factual rebuttal of much of the rhetoric that has filled the debate on AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile.
Let’s look at just a few of the Report’s many findings:
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