As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un
In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and on this weeks communicators, a discussion on the fccs upcoming debate and vote on repealing the Net Neutrality regulations. A couple of weeks ago previn can carr brendan carr was a guest on this program. Heres what he had to say about Net Neutrality. In a nutshell, what this document proposes to do and ill be voting for it december 14th is return the internet to the exact same Regulatory Framework that governed the internet starting from 2015 all the way back from 20 years that preceded it. And under that environment we saw mass investment, we saw consumers protected and free and open internet. Most fundamentally, we all believe in a prix and open internet free and open internet, but whats the right Regulatory Framework to support that. Host gigi sohn, you were at the fcc with democratic chair tom wheeler during the time that Ne
Host made a decision a lot of the ccf coming debate then vote on that neutrality regulation the newest member of the fcc on the republican side was a guest on the program and here is what he had to say about that neutrality. With this document and from december 14th this to that exact same framework that governed the internet starting in 2015 going back 20 years that preceded it and we saw massive investment in the internet system, consumers protected and a free and open internet the most fundamentally but the question is what is there right to Regulatory Framework to ensure that . Sold the doctrine puts us on the right remark before us. Host you are at the fcc with democratic chair wheeler at the time that neutrality was debated. I think that is a little bit of the of vision mr. I will explain the proposal. Number one broadband. It takes broadband oversight out of the fcc entirely and gives it to that ftc that does not have a strong the tools number one. Number two it eliminates the r
Visited bell labs. Named for alexander or graham bell, inventer of the telephone. The labs were created by at t. Theyre now owned by nokia, a Finnish Telecommunications company. We talked with bell labs president Marcus Weldon at the labs headquarters in new jersey. Host so, Marcus Weldon, where are we . Guest were at bell labs. The esteemed historical institution. But id like to say not just historical, in fact, very present and we like to think or very relevant to the future as well. Its an institution that has invented just about every technology, a system that led to lennox and thats what runs the internet. Your apple phone or your [inaudible] lasers that control the optics that do Long Distance communication, satellite communication, so we invented all of that and won a bunch of prizes for it. But we sort of consider ourselves the foundation of the internet. Host well, its 2017, who owns bell labs . Guest a Company Named nokia. That company you probably all remember from the 3310,
And jon fortt making his way back from out west. You know why we cued the billy joel at the top, shares of twitter had their dose of honesty. Extending their losses, revenue up 61 in the quarter. Executives voiced concerns about user growth. Here is jack dorsey the interim ceo on last nights Conference Call. Chronic initiatives we mentioned in previous earnings calls like instant timelines and log dot experiences have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This sun acceptable and were not happy about it. Joining us this morning from one market in san francisco, colin sebastian. Good morning. Good morning. People are noting the clash between last nights call and the media rounds they did in the prior quarter where they were enthusiastic about the game plan and about the product. Why the uturn . On one hand twitter is, theres a tale of to sides of twitter. On one hand, adam bains team, on the revenue site of the business is performing extremely well. Twit