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 CONSUMER/  DISABILITY  TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
 ADVISORY  COMMITTEE  (CDTAC)  MEETING 


 Federal  Communications  Commission 
 445  12  th  Street,  SW,  Room  TW-  C305,  Washington,  DC 


 Friday,  November  30,  2001 
 9:  00  a.  m.  –  5:  00  p.  m. 


 A  G  E  N  D  A 
 THE  STATE  OF  THE  TELECOM  ACT  OF  1996 
 HAS  IT  BENEFITTED  CONSUMERS  AND  WHERE  DO  WE  GO  FROM  HERE? 


 Morning  Session 
 9:  00  –  9:  05  A.  M.  Welcome  and  Call  to  Order,  Shirley  Rooker,  CDTAC  Chair 
 9:  05  –  9:  25  A.  M.  Remarks  and  introductions  of  Chairman  Powell  [schedule 
 permitting],  Commissioner  Copps,  and  K.  Dane  Snowden,  Chief, 
 Consumer  Information  Bureau 


 9:  25  –  9:  30  A.  M.  Committee  business,  Shirley  Rooker 
 9:  30  –  10:  45  A.  M.  Historical  Perspectives  on  the  Telecommunications  Act  of  1996. 
 Panel:  Historical  Perspectives  of  Some  of  the  Key  Players 
 Moderator:  Edie  Herman,  Associate  Managing  Editor,  Communications  Daily 
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 Presenters:  Howard  Symons,  Esq.,  Mintz  Levin  Cohn  Ferns  (former  counsel  to 
 Representative  Tim  Wirth,  former  Chairman  of  the  House 
 Subcommittee  on  Telecommunications) 


 James  Bradley  Ramsay,  General  Counsel,  National  Association  of 
 RegulatoryUtility  Commissioners 


 Gene  Kimmelman,  Co-  Director,  Washington  Office,  Consumers 
 Union 


 Debra  Berlyn,  Executive  Director,  Competition  Policy  Institute 
 Lauren  J.  Belvin,  Vice  President-  Federal  Policy  and  Law,  Qwest 
 Communications  International 


 10:  45  –  11:  00  A.  M.  Break 
 11:  00  –  Noon  Subcommittee  Breakout  Session  I 
 Noon  –  12:  45  P.  M.  Lunch 
 12:  10  P.  M.  Commissioner  Abernathy  -  remarks 
 Afternoon  Session 
 12:  45  –3:  15  P.  M.  Competition  in  the  Local  Exchange  and  Long  Distance  Markets. 


 12:  45  –  1:  00  P.  M.  Regulatory  Framework:  The  Basics  -  John  Stanley,  Assistant 
 Chief,  Policy  and  Planning  Division,  Common  Carrier  Bureau 


 1:  00  –  2:  00  P.  M. 
 Panel:  Perspectives  on  Local  Exchange  and  Long  Distance  Competition 
 Moderator:  Tom  Leithauser,  Senior  Editor,  TRDaily 
 Presenters:  John  Conroy,  Vice  President,  Regulatory  Matters,  Verizon  -- 
 Massachusetts 


 Allan  Bausback,  Director,  Office  of  Communications, 
 New  York  Public  Service  Commission 


 Mark  Cooper,  Director  of  Research,  Consumer  Federation  of 
 America 
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 John  Nakahata,  Partner,  Harris,  Wiltshire  and  Grannis;  Coalition 
 for  Affordable  Local  and  Long  Distance  Service 


 Carol  Ann  Bischoff  ,  Executive  Vice  President  &  General 
 Counsel,  CompTel 


 2:  00  –  3:  15  P.  M.  Committee  dialog  With  panelists 
 3:  15  –  3:  30  P.  M.  Break 
 3:  30  –  4:  30  P.  M.  Subcommittee  Breakout  Session  II 
 4:  30  –  4:  45  P.  M.  Report  back  from  Subcommittees 
 4:  45  –  5:  00  P.  M.  Comments  from  the  public 
 5:  00  P.  M.  Adjournment 
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