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Session 10: Telecommunications at a Cross Roads
Broadband wireline and wireless technologies are enabling the convergence of voice, data, and video services, and are creating a different landscape in the communications industry. This session will address how public policy should best facilitate growth in broadband services.
Sponsor: NABE Technology Roundtable
Presentations
Robert Crandall's slide show (PDF)
Carolyn Brandon's slide show (PDF)
Links of Interest
Brookings Institution Telecommunications page
Speakers
Christopher Swann
Bureau of Economic Analysis, presiding
Carolyn Brandon
Vice President of Policy
CTIA - The Wireless Association
As CTIA’s Vice President, Policy, Ms. Brandon is responsible for the development and implementation of the Association’s public policy on issues affecting the commercial wireless industry. She works with member companies to ensure the industry is strategically and effectively positioning itself on issues such as the appropriate role for government in a competitive industry, the issues flowing from convergence such as rating content to mobile phones, privacy and e-commerce issues, spectrum property rights, the appropriate regulatory paradigm for IP-enabled services and other emerging technologies, rural wireless initiatives, wireless broadband, taxation of wireless, environmental concerns, recycling, wireless AMBER Alerts, state efforts to regulate wireless and consumer protection mandates.
Carolyn joined CTIA from the Washington, DC telecommunications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP where she was a partner for several years representing wireless communication providers in proceedings and transactions before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, U.S. bankruptcy courts and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brandon clerked for the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Plans & Policy, Common Carrier Bureau and the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance
Robert W. Crandall
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
Robert W. Crandall is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he studies: Antitrust policy; Auto industry; Environmental policy; Industrial organization; Regulation and deregulation; Steel industry; and Telecommunications. His current projects include Telecommunications regulatory policy, particularly regarding wireless and broadband competition, and the effects of antitrust policy on the U.S. telecommunications sector.
His previous positions include: Acting, Deputy, and Assistant Director, Council on Wage and Price Stability; Faculty Member, George Washington University, Northwestern University, University of Maryland, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Some of his recent publications include: Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunictions since the 1996 Telecommunications Act (Brookings, 2005); "The Remedy for the 'Bottleneck Monopoly' in Telecom: Isolate It, Share It, or Ignore It?" University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Winter 2005); "Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence," with Clifford Winston, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2003); Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? with James Alleman (AEI Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2002)
He has an M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1968) from Northwestern University, and an A.B., University of Cincinnati, 1962.
