TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DEALS FOR CARRIERS
Conference in Detail
Thursday • July 29, 2004
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| 8:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:30 | Day One: Interconnection Interconnection agreements between ILECs and competitors today; commercial agreement alternatives and other variations on the interconnection theme |
Colleen O’Grady Diamond, Esq. Program Co-Chair SBC Communications San Francisco, CA Walt Sapronov, Esq. Program Co-Chair Gerry & Sapronov LLP Atlanta, GA |
| 8:45 | The Current Commercial Dealmaking Environment for Carriers |
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| • Strong vs. weak segments and players: Where can you boldly set forth and where will you need to exercise caution? |
Luke Schaeffer Managing Director FTI Consulting San Francisco, CA |
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| • A seasoned dealmaker updates his checklist: Formerly contentious areas with fairly standardized solutions; new areas requiring time and creativity |
Walt Sapronov, Esq. Program Co-Chair |
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| 10:15 | Break |
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| 10:30 | The Rapidly Evolving Environment for Wireless and Wi-Fi Services |
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| • Legal perspective on the changing landscape for wireless services and the implications for carriers, property owners, and customers |
Suzanne Toller, Esq. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP San Francisco, CA |
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Business perspective |
Laura Altschul Director National Siting Policy T-Mobile USA Bellevue, WA |
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| • Wireless broadband service provider perspective on transactional trends and key deal points |
Carl W. Peede President and CEO Tri-State Broadband, Inc. Roswell, GA |
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| 12:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
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| 1:15 | Interconnection Following the DC Circuit’s USTA II Decision Interconnection and unbundling under Section 251; What’s left and for how long; TELRIC, rates and UNE-P availability; perspectives on what’s settled; what’s still to be resolved; what to do pending final resolution |
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ILEC perspective |
Colleen O’Grady Diamond, Esq. Program Co-Chair |
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CLEC perspective |
Jonathan Jacob Nadler, Esq. Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP Washington, DC |
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| 2:45 | Break |
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| 3:00 | Inter-Carrier Compensation Update on FCC efforts to reconcile carrier access charges, reciprocal compensation and other forms of carrier - to - carrier compensation, including “bill and keep” |
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CLEC perspective |
Jonathan E. Canis, Esq. Kelley Drye & Warren LLP New York, NY |
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ILEC perspective |
John Devaney, Esq. Perkins Coie LLP Washington, DC |
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| 4:15 | Access Charges for VoIP: What’s on the Horizon? Access charge treatment of VoIP: does (or should) the information service exemption apply; update on FCC NPRM regarding VoIP regulation; USF, 911, and CALEA issues relevant to dealmaking |
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VoIP service provider perspective |
William B. Wilhelm, Jr., Esq. Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP Washington, DC |
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Established carrier perspective |
Jack Zinman, Esq. SBC Communications Washington, DC |
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| 5:30 | End of Day |
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