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- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General MotorsMaybe they will put the ice cream man in charge of Citigroup nexti knowlets put an oil guy in charge of Time Warnerwe can play all kinds of tricks BarryOh what fun!Court ReviewHmmm. You make some good points, but... GM already...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Investment, ATT/SBC, General Motors Corp., Ed Whitacre, Bad Idea Dept., ATT, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- A rational debate on Net Neutrality
- The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...
- Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?
- Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?It's just stunning...Eddie must be on crack... I can just imagine Ed standing before the FCC and spouting this dribble with Senators nodding approval... Why should the the BIG Bell/Pipefitters be any different from BIG Oil...? It's all Monopoly money to them...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, bandwidth, Ed Whitacre
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
- Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?
- Just in case you think that AT&T and the other greedy broadband monopolists are starting to feel the urge of the common good and are starting to guilt-trip over a net that ain't neutral- I have news for you. Yesterday, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre put the gauntlet...
- Tags: network operator, Ed Whitacre, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-08-02
- EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO's political donations to net neutrality opponents
- As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under "Whitacre." I found several donations,...
- Tags: Ed Whitacre
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&T
- AT&T Inc. (that's their CEO, Ed Whitacre) says that starting tomorrow it will revise the language of its privacy practices, letting customers know that AT&T owns their phone records and can hand them over to law enforcement on request. Not coincidental that these changes come at...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
- Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see itno interference, *but*....I'm sure AT&T will be happy to provide bandwidth for the search sites; *enough* bandwidth for users to get decent performance, well that's another matter....I'm paying my $nn/month for cable broadband, that's *supposed* to be paying for them to...
- Tags: Regulations, Cable, Network technology, Ed Whitacre, regulation, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
- Yesterday at the TelecomNext, the same AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre at right who has been calling the idea that his company does not have the right to charge extra carriage fees for high-bandwidth Web content "nuts," sounded like he's mellowed out."Any provider that blocks access to content is inviting...
- Tags: Ed Whitacre, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?
- That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-05
- AT&T's Whitacre not backing down about carriage fees
- A few months ago, when SBC (now AT&T's) CEO Ed Whitacre made statements endorsing his company's right to extract carriage fees from high-bandwidth sites and applications running across their networks, advocates for "net neutrality" raised a ruckus. At the same time, Whitacre's corporate public relations department issued statements attempting to...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- With telco mergers approved, greed factor can't be discounted
- I've been processing my thoughts this morning on what happens next in light of the Federal Communications Commission's unanimous approval yesterday of the Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mergers.My opinion is a conflicted one. From the standpoint of telecommunications infrastructure, these deals work. AT&T's able business services infrastructure meshes well with SBC's...
- Tags: MCI Inc., cable, Ed Whitacre
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
- SBC chief: Vonage, other VoIP providers should pay to use our pipes
- In a new Business Week Online interview, SBC Telecommunications CEO Ed Whitacre sounds a bit more than forthright about what he sees as his company's right to demand carrier fees from Internet telephony providers.Whitacre, whose company will take the AT&T name when, as expected, final approval is granted for SBC...
- Tags: pipe, Ed Whitacre, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
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- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...
- Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?
- Ed Whitacre. The quintessential amalgator of companies. He's going to save GM, as its new chairman? Don't get me wrong. He did a pretty amazing job with the hand he was played in telecommunications. He took the smallest of the Baby Bells,...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Southwestern Bell, General Motors Corp., Internet, Operational Planning, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs
- Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVsA waste of timeIt never ceases to amaze me. We have seen that music is pretty much dead in the water insofar as getting people to pay for it. DRM is also heading the way of the dodo in music content terms. Movies will follow the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blockbuster Inc., music, digital-rights management, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
- I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Save Internet freedom--from regulation
- Save Internet freedom--from regulationIf only.....it were that simple.What the writer fails to acknowledge is the fact that ethics subverted by greed within some companies have done harm to people for the sake of expanding profit thereby inviting regulation on themselves by the representatives of the people whom they were abusing.Given...
- Tags: Regulations, Telecom & Utilities, Rogers Cable, regulation, Save Internet freedom, telecommunications, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- A rational debate on Net Neutrality
- The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...
- Tags: Technology policy, News, Networking, Net Neutrality, Mobile/Wireless, Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- FCC Commish's reservations on voting in AT&T-BellSouth merger cheer net neutrality advocates
- Turns out that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell wont vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger.I have to tell you I am surprised. In the last six years, we havent seen all that many Republicans buck the "free market" mantra enthusiastically championed by the GOP. And it is not common that regulators...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, McDowell, Net Neutrality, Gigi Sohn, FCC, merger
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&T
- Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&TAnd when I receive that noticeI'll cancel my AT&T long distance and tell them why. " . . . and can hand them over to law enforcement on request." Hand my information over in response to...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Osama
- Discussion threads 2006-06-22
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