4 posts and columns on Jim Cicconi

AT&T Cries “We Told You So” on T-Mobile Layoffs

in Mobile on March 23 at 12:00 pm PT

The company says T-Mobile’s move to close seven call centers show that the country would have been better off if regulators had allowed the deal to go through.
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Shocking Coincidence! Republicans, AT&T Unhappy With Proposed Network Neutrality Rules.

in News on September 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

That was fast. Just hours after Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, unveiled his open Internet proposal, a number of Republican senators stepped forward to oppose it. Arguing that Net Neutrality will “impede investment and innovation of new technologies,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), proposed an amendment to an Interior Department appropriations bill that would bar the FCC from using federal funds to implement the proposal.

Shocking Coincidence! Republicans, AT&T Unhappy With Proposed Network Neutrality Rules.

in News on September 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

That was fast. Just hours after Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, unveiled his open Internet proposal, a number of Republican senators stepped forward to oppose it. Arguing that Net Neutrality will “impede investment and innovation of new technologies,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), proposed an amendment to an Interior Department appropriations bill that would bar the FCC from using federal funds to implement the proposal.

AT&T Starts Wrist-Slapping Music Pirates, Gently. But Movie and TV Thieves Will Be a Different Story.

in Media on March 25, 2009 at 9:37 am PT

Late last year, the music industry announced that it was going to stop suing music pirates because it had finally gotten Internet pipe companies to help it crack down on file “sharers.” One problem: None of the big cable or telco guys would fess up to joining the plan. Now AT&T finally has–in a very limited, toe-in-the-water, we’re-just-testing-this-out way.
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