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Open Commission Meeting - June 2008

Public Hearing on Early Termination Fees (served as June Open Commission Meeting)

• Open Commission Meeting Cancelled
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Statements and Presentations

FCC Commissioners

• Kevin J. Martin - FCC Chairman
• Michael J. Copps - FCC Commissioner
• Jonathan S. Adelstein - FCC Commissioner
• Deborah Taylor Tate - FCC Commissioner
• Robert M. McDowell - FCC Commissioner

Testimony of Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator, Minnesota

Panel Discussion 1 - Early Termination Fees: Consumer and Industry Practices and Perspectives

• Anne C. Boyle - Chair, Nebraska Public Service Commission
• Daniel L. Brenner - Senior Vice President, Law & Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
• Thomas W. Hazlett - Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University School of Law
• Larry S. Landis - Commissioner, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
• John F. Murphy - Senior Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer, The DIRECTV Group
• Patrick Pearlman - Deputy Consumer Advocate, West Virginia Public Service Commission, appearing on behalf of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA)
• Harold Schroer - Individual Consumer
• Lee L. Selwyn, Ph.D - President and Founder, Economics and Technology Inc.
• Thomas J. Tauke - Executive Vice President – Public Affairs, Policy and Communications, Verizon Communications
• Molly White - Individual Consumer

Panel Discussion 2 - Legal Implications

• Seamus C. Duffy - Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
• Pamela Gilbert - Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, Washington, D.C. Counsel, Cellphone Early Termination Fee Cases pending in Superior Court in Alameda County, California
• Christopher Guttman-McCabe - Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA
• Chris Murray - Senior Counsel, Consumers Union
• Alan R. Plutzik - Attorney, Bransom, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser, LLP, Counsel of Record for Wireless Consumers Alliance in FCC Docket Nos. 05-193 and 05-194
• Christopher J. Wright - Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

Related Documents

• 6/10/08 - FCC Announces Witness List and Further Details of Public Hearing on Early Termination Fees. News Release.
• 6/5/08 - FCC to Hold Public Hearing and Open Commission Meeting Thursday, June 12, 2008. Public Notice.