In The News 2004


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Major media news outlets regularly quote Phoenix Center staff as experts or cite to our work. Please find below a representative sampling of some of our media hits for 2004.

CNET 2004 Year In Review

Sununu Sees Telecom Act Ready for Vote by Mid-2006; Conyers Says The FCC’s New UNE rules are Likely to Raise Consumer Telecom Prices, COMMUNICATIONS DAILY (16 December 2004).

Ted Hearn, Sununu: New Bill to Address IP Video, MULTICHANNEL NEWS (16 December 2004).

The BOC wins a battle, but the war goes on, TELECOM POLICY REPORT (8 September 2004).

Group: New FCC Policies To Curb Broadband, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (3 September 2004).

James D. Mcwilliams, Phone Companies Under Fire: Competitors Call For Probe, Accuse Bellsouth, Others Of Anticompetitive Practices, THE STATE (South Carolina) (4 February 2004).

RED NOVA, Regulators Let Cingular Buy AT&T Wireless, (26 October 2004).

Dan Richman, The Winners And Losers In The AT&T Wireless Deal, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (26 October 2004) and reprinted in Forbes.com.

Yuki Noguchi, Regulators Let Cingular Buy AT&T Wireless: Merger Will Create Biggest U.S. Cell Firm, WASHINGTON POST (23 October 2004).

Bobby White, FCC Speeds Setup Of Fiber-Optic Networks, FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM (15 October 2004).

Josh Long, Decision 2004: Will Telecom Be A Winner? PHONE + (October 2004).

Ted Hearn, Ops Again Face Forced Access, MULTICHANNEL NEWS (13 September 2004).

David Lazarus, Lazarus At Large: SBC Gets OK to Ask More for Local Access, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (24 September 2004).

Ken Belson and Matt Richtel, For Cingular, Becoming No. 1 Also Poses Risks, NEW YORK TIMES (27 September 2004).

MIAMI HERALD, Editorial: Court Ruling Will Mean Higher Phone Costs (28 June 2004).

Duane Freese, Promises, Promises, TECH CENTRAL STATION (24 June 2004).

WALL STREET & TECHNOLOGY ON-LINE, Report: AT&T, MCI Could Begin Dropping Local Service (15 June 2004).

TECH WEB NEWS, AT&T, MCI Could Begin Dropping Local Service (15 June 2004).

CONSUMERAFFAIRS.COM, Consumers Will Pay Big for Cingular/AT&T Merger Study Says (17 May 2004).

Margaret Boles, CLECs’ Face Uphill Battle To Get UNE Rules Reinstated After Solicitor General Decision, TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORTS (15 June 2004).

Elizabeth Biddlecombe, Mobile-Over-WLAN Startup Kineto Wireless Gets $35m: Six Investors Take Part in Series C Round But Commentators Query Business Model, TOTAL TELECOM (11 June 2004).

Josh Long, Rewriting the Telecom Act: Congress Primed to Examine Communications Reform, PHONE+ (26 May 2004).

TELECOM POLICY REPORT, Phoenix Center Zapped By SBC For ‘Trademark’ Infringement: Did The Baby Bell Act Out Of Concern Or Was This Simply Revenge? (19 May 2004).

TELECOM POLICY REPORT, Policy Wonk Speaks Out About Need for “Real” Telecom Reform (28 April 2004).

James S. Granelli, Is a Truce Possible in Phone Fight? LOS ANGELES TIMES (3 May 2004).

TELECOM POLICY REPORT, Phoenix Center Derides “Intermodal Competition” (7 April 2004).

TELECOMWEB, Phoenix Center Report Derides “Intermodal Competition” (6 April 2004).

TELECOMWEB, IPI Urges President to Not Delay Broadband Rollout (5 April 2004).

Joan Haberle, Phone Provider Competition Aided Industry Innovations, NEW JERSEY BEACON (31 March 2004).

Jason Gertzen, Phone Giants all Invoke the Little Guy: Rhetoric Gets Hot in Fight Over Access to SBC Lines, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINAL (March 20, 2004).

TELECOM WEB, Policy Think Tank Honcho Blasts Court For ‘Ignorance of Economics’ (10 March 2004).

Jon Healey and Alex Pham, Court Tosses Phone Lease Rule:The Competition that Saves Local Subscribers About $10 Billion a Year May be Jeopardized, LA TIMES (3 March 2004).

COMMUNICATIONS DAILY, Consumers Benefiting From Bundled Phone Plans, Says the Phoenix Center (30 January 2004).

TELECOM WEB, Phoenix Center Study Upholds Necessity of 1996 Telecom Act (29 January) 2004).

TELECOM POLICY REPORT, Competition Watch: Study Upholds Necessity of 1996 Telecom Act (28 January 2004).

TRDAILY, Study: Competition, Service Bundles Save Consumers $10 Billion Annually (27 January 2004).

MIAMI HERALD, Study : Bundling Saves A Bundle (27 January 2004).

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, Consumers Ringing Up Savings Flat-Rate Packages Saving $10 Billion A Year, Report Finds (27 January 2004).

THE DAY (New London, Connecticut), Economical Phone Plans Are In Peril, Report Says (27 January 2004).

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