Key Questions Remain on How Communications Should Be Regulated, AT&T's Marsh Says
Joan Marsh took over leadership of the regulatory team at AT&T, with the departure as expected (see 1608100041) of Jim Cicconi, she noted in a Monday blog post. Marsh, now senior vice president-federal regulatory, replaces Bob Quinn, who got Cicconi’s…
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job. “This opportunity comes to me at an important inflection point for our company, our industry and our country,” Marsh wrote. “We are on the precipice of a Presidential election that will, in all events, herald change during a time when communications companies are increasingly scrutinized through the lens of a dated regulatory code that is more and more untethered from the realities of today’s modern networks. We have moved well beyond trying to fit a square regulatory peg into a round regulatory hole to fundamental questions about whether pegs and holes are an adequate regulatory framework at all.”