Phoenix Center to Host Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium This Thursday

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Phoenix Center:

What:	Phoenix Center Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium
Where:	University Club (1135 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 – Second Floor)
When:	Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 8:45 am – 1:00 pm
Keynotes:	Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Federal Communications Commission
	Congressman G.K. Butterfield (NC - 1^st and Majority Chief Deputy Whip)
Other Speakers:	Dr. Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics – Georgetown University
	Dr. Jonathan Baker, Chief Economist – Federal Communications Commission
	Dr. Robert Willig, Professor of Economics – Princeton University
	Dr. George Ford, Chief Economist – The Phoenix Center
	Dr. Edward Amoroso, Chief Security Officer – AT&T
	Jason Livingood, Executive Director of Internet Systems Engineering – Comcast
	Mark Wegleitner, Senior Vice President, Technology – Verizon
	Dr. Rob Curtis, Deployment Director – FCC’s Omnibus Broadband Initiative

The Symposium is a “widely-attended event” and is open to government employees, press and other interested persons. There is no charge to attend.

To see the most current agenda and to register for the event, please visit the Phoenix Center’s webpage at: http://www.phoenix-center.org/sym09.html.

The Phoenix Center is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economics of telecommunications and high-tech industries.