The End of the Phone System
Experts’ Workshop
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, May 16-18, 2012
Program
May 16, Wednesday
Welcome Reception: 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
Square 1682
121 S. 17th St. (215) 563-5008
May 17, Thursday
8:00 – 8:30 Light Breakfast and Coffee
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome Remarks
TOPIC ONE: REGULATION
9:00 – 10:00 Charles Davidson & Michael Santorelli, “Regulatory federalism post-PSTN: Assessing possible federal-state frameworks for an all-IP world” Respondent: Colleen Boothby, Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15 Christopher Yoo, “Is there a role for common carriage in an all-IP
environment?”
Respondent: Susan Crawford, Harvard Law School
11:15 – 12:15 Rob Frieden, “The mixed blessing of a deregulatory endpoint for the public switched telephone network”
Respondent: Rebecca Arbogast, Comcast
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch. Speaker, Sharon Gillett, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
1:30 – 2:30 Peter Alexander & Brendan Cunningham, “From switches to packets: the new world of interconnection”
Respondent: Martin Geddes, Consultant
TOPIC TWO: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
2:30 – 3:30 Jonathan Liebenau, Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, & Patrik Karrberg, “Strategic Challenges for European Telecom Operators: The Consequences of Imbalances in Internet Traffic”
Respondent: Amit Schejter, Penn State University
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:45 Roxana Barrantes Cáceres, “Public policy versus regulatory policy in the transition from the PSTN to the IP-converged network: Reflections from Latin America”
Respondent: Monroe Price, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
4:45 – 5:45 Fernando Beltrán & Ursula Dantin, “Australia and New Zealand national broadband plans”
Respondent: Richard D. Taylor, Penn State University
7:00 p.m. Dinner Off-Site
Serafina
130 South 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA (215) 977-7755
May 18, Friday
8:00 – 8:30 Light Breakfast and Coffee
TOPIC THREE: TECHNICAL ISSUES
8:30 – 9:30 William Lehr, Steve Bauer, & David Clark, “Measuring Internet performance when broadband is the next PSTN”
Respondent: Rick Whitt, Google
9:30 – 10:30 Richard Shockey, “Technical aspects of PSTN conversion”
Respondent: Kevin Werbach, Wharton
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
TOPIC FOUR: SOCIAL CONCERNS
10:45 – 11:45 John Horrigan, “Reforming Lifeline/Link-up: A ‘community to consumer’
model”
Respondent: Ellen Goodman, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden
11:45 – 12:45 Helena Mitchell, “Great expectations: Keeping people with disabilities connected in a wireless future”
Respondent: Krishna Jayakar, Penn State University
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch and Policy Roundtable
Moderator Philip Napoli, Fordham University; David Young, Verizon; Richard Clarke, AT&T; Nicol Turner-Lee, NAMIC; and Harold Feld, Public Knowledge
2:00 Closing Remarks