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AT&TBush Announces New Acting AG PickPosted on September 17, 2007 - 7:25pm.
from: TPM Muckraker Bush Announces New Acting AG Pick Bush threw an unexpected change-up in his announcement this morning. Towards the end of his remarks about his nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, he also said that outgoing Justice Department official Peter Keisler would serve as the acting attorney general until Mukasey is confirmed. ( categories: AT&T )
The United States of AT$TPosted on September 17, 2007 - 7:16pm.
from: The Next Hurrah September 17, 2007 Back in June, the Bush Administration invited one of AT&T's key lobbyists, Ed Gillespie, to serve as White House counselor. A few weeks after that, BushCo expanded AT&T's resident lobbyist's role to include most of Karl Rove's portfolio. Just days after Gillespie took over that role, the DOJ made an unusual intervention into the FCC's request for comments on Net Neutrality, weighing against Net Neutrality. ( categories: AT&T | NSA/Telco Wiretap Scandal )
TN: State's new AT$T chief could revive franchise billPosted on September 16, 2007 - 11:37am.
Note: The new AT&T Tennessee president, Gregg Morton, repeats the telco mantra "competition means lower prices" while offering no evidence that this has been the case anywhere. Instead he offers up the cost of the infrastructure upgrades AT&T has planned in states that have given in to telco state franchise demands, as if that is somehow a form of corporate benevolence. In reality, these upgrade costs come at the expense of the local cities and the loss of revenue from past local franchising agremments. AT&T and other telcos are saving much more than they are investing in infrastructure upgrades - the city losses are their gains. CT: U-verse avoids Connecticut regulatorsPosted on September 11, 2007 - 9:13pm.
from: Fierce IPTV U-verse avoids Connecticut regulators The Connecticut regulators in charge of issuing video franchise licenses have turned down a petition from the state's attorney general to make AT&T get one. The state Department of Public Utility Control told Attorney General Richard Blumenthal it would not require AT&T to get a franchise license pending the outcome of a federal court challenge. The PUC's decision allows AT&T to continue building out its U-verse system and signing up subscribers. ( categories: AT&T | CONNECTICUT )
AT$T Waves Investment Dollars to Leverage Favorable State LegislationPosted on September 10, 2007 - 9:28pm.
from: Enclave Monday, September 10, 2007 As a former lobbyist, AT&T Tennessee's new President must understand the power of money in the General Assembly. Now he seems to be using it to resurrect "video franchise reform" (VFR) which would not just promote competition for the cable industry; it would also centralize the marketing process by establishing state-wide franchising, effectively removing the power of municipalities to broker their own deals. ( categories: AT&T | State Franchises )
Channel LinguistsPosted on September 7, 2007 - 6:53am.
from: Riedel Communications Friday, September 07, 2007 The study of language fascinates me. There are so many parts. The actual language itself or languages themselves. The socialization of language. How language metamorphoses over time, geographical areas or trends or necessity. The actual physical characteristics of language, such as how does the human palette form words or perhaps the tongue or the lip?. How language is learned, say by demonstration, experience or happenstance? I mean why does a child say “Momma” or “Daddy” and not “Hot Dog?” at ten or twelve months? Is it relational in which we believe that Baby loves us more than Hot Dogs or do we just drill Momma and Daddy so relentlessly the kid never has a chance to express their first linguistic desires at all whatsoever? ( categories: AT&T | State Franchises )
OH: Video ‘Competition’ In Ohio Begins To Spark ComplaintsPosted on September 1, 2007 - 8:25am.
from: USTV Media Video ‘Competition’ In Ohio Begins To Spark Complaints Seems that some towns in Ohio are starting to receive a number of complaints from residents regarding AT&T’s solicitors. Here is a letter from one Ohio resident to their local municipal officials regarding rude and pushy behavior on the part of AT&T employees. NV: Nevada's AT$T TV BoondogglePosted on August 29, 2007 - 9:34pm.
from: Vote Gibbons Out Nevada's AT&T TV Boondoggle Leave it to Governor Jim Gibbons and the Legislature to subsidize bad tech with bad policy. The Gube's Noise Machine, or what's left of it, was making, well, noise about the big subsidies the state will be handing corporate giant AT&T by letting it provide cable TV without having to call it cable TV or having to deal with pesky local governments, under a new bill just made into law--AB 526. (ET, RGJ, HL) ( categories: AT&T | State Franchises )
AT$T Confirms Second Telco Box FirePosted on August 27, 2007 - 6:29am.
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