Freeing Cities From Telco and Cable Monopolies

In the early 1970s I was part of an administration that helped break up AT&T … because AT&T had become an impediment to the development and nurturing of a new knowledge-based economy and society.

John M. Eger, of San Diego State University is the Executive Director of the International Center for Communications, and president of the World Foundation for Smart Communities. Eger headed CBS Broadcast International which he established, and was senior vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. From 1971-1973, he was legal assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and from 1974-1976 served as telecommunications advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and was director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. Eger opened the California Broadband Roundtable on March 15 in San Jose with this presentation:

I believe broadband today is as important as waterways, railways and highways were in an earlier era. Unfortunately, this concern, indeed urgency, is not widely held. From a policy standpoint, clearly, at the federal, state and local level, we have lost our way, much to our peril.

By John M. Eger

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