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PHOENIX CENTER 2001 U.S. TELECOMS SYMPOSIUM
On July 11, 2001, the Phoenix Center held its inaugural U.S. Telecoms Symposium in Washington, D.C. Over 60 senior telecommunications industry executives and policymakers attended this year’s Symposium in order to hear not only from two Members of the United States House of Representatives, but also from such leading telecoms players such as: Dr. George Ford PhD (Adjunct Fellow Phoenix Center and Chief Economist, Z-Tel), Robert G. Berger (Phoenix Center Adjunct Fellow and Chairman & CEO, CityNet Telecommunications), Dr. Jerry Duvall PhD (Chief Economist Emeritus, Phoenix Center and Chief Economist, FCC Mass Media Bureau), Dr. Marius Schwartz, PhD (Georgetown University and former Economics Director of Enforcement at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice), Dan Gonzalez (Vice President, XO Communications), Tom Koutsky (Adjunct Fellow, Phoenix Center, and former Associate General Counsel, Covad), John Thorne (Deputy General Counsel, Verizon), Larry Clinton (USTA), Dr. Tom Hazlett PhD (AEI), Dr. Robert Crandall PhD (Brookings Institution), Phil Verveer (Partner, Willke Farr & Gallagher), Brian O’Connor (Phoenix Center Editorial Advisory Board Member and Vice President, VoiceStream), Dr. Doron Fertig PhD (Senior Economist, McKinsey & Co.) and Bob Atkinson (Executive Director, Columbia Institute of Tele-Information and Deputy Chief, FCC Common Carrier Bureau).
As
noted above, one of the Phoenix Center’s primary missions
is to increase the analytical rigor of public-policy decision-making.
To this end, in addition to this excellent program, the Phoenix
Center took the opportunity at this year’s Symposium to recognize
those public officials who contributed to this process.
The Phoenix Center was honored that Representative
Jerrold Nadler, (D-8th NY) was able to attend this year’s
Symposium and that we were able to recognize him publicly for
his efforts. The second way the Phoenix Center recognized policy-makers
who seek to maximize consumer welfare is at this year’s Symposium
was by bestowing its prestigious Jerry B. Duvall Award for Public
Service upon Representative Chris Cannon (R-UT). Each year, the
Duvall Award goes to the policy-maker who – like its namesake
– most demonstrates the political courage to break away from
the conventional rhetoric and instead approaches the complex competitive
issues raised by telecoms restructuring with the solemnity and
analytical rigor they deserve. The Phoenix Center chose Representative
Cannon to be this year’s recipient for having the political
courage to introduce the American Broadband Competition Act of
2001 as a legislative alternative to the Internet Freedom and
Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 (Tauzin-Dingell). The Phoenix Center is delighted to make a streaming
video record in of its recent 2001 U.S. Telecoms Symposium available
for interested people who could not attend the Symposium in person.
As noted below, the video record of the Symposium is broken into
four separate files. Just click on the desired file format and
speed that you would like to use. In addition, where available,
we have posted the PowerPoint slide presentations of several speakers
so that these presentations can be viewed along with the video
presentation.
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