A Broadband Forum Policy Watch

January 2004 is the 20th Anniversary of the Divestiture Order in January 1984 that broke up AT&T into many competing companies. The question today is what the future of communications will look like -- and whether the nation which was well served by breaking up a huge monopoly twenty years ago is still facing serious competition problems in the telecommunications/IT policy arena.

We have asked AT&T's CEO, David W. Dorman, to reflect on this anniversary; to comment on the state of competition in telecom today; to give us insight into the hot, emerging VOIP debate; and to share with us his view on why policy choices being made today will have an enormous impact on the next two decades of communications innovations and customer service.

Participants

• David Dorman
  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T