CLOSING

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CLOSING

• Susan Bahr, Esq.
• www.bahrlaw.com

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REMEMBRANCE
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INCREASED SECURITY
THEN NOW
Getting to airport 10 minutes before flight time Arriving 1 ½ hours before flight time
Flying on Sept. 11 Flying on Sept. 12
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STABILITY OF TELECOM COMPANIES
THEN NOW
Investing in WorldCom Diversification
Go easy on Bells Reconsider elimination of accounting rules
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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can

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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can
• Telephone network
• Disaster prevention
• Disaster recovery

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DISASTER PREVENTION

• Keep abreast of threat
• Use Best Practices
• Report attacks

Rod Wallis and Dennis Couture, NORTEL Networks
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DISASTER PREVENTION

• Objectives confidentiality, integrity and
  availability
• Info security lifecycle plan, design, review,
  execute, plan, design, . . . .

Lou Defino, TDS Telecom
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DISASTER PREVENTION

• Department of Homeland Security
• Priority use of wireless services
• USA Patriot Act

Dave Cosson, Kraskin, Lesse Cosson, LLC
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DISASTER RECOVERY

• Planning Preparation Practice Recovery
• Lessons from
• NY

John McHugh, OPASTCO
Michael Fraine, Verizon
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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can
• Telephone network
• Disaster prevention
• Disaster recovery
• Regulatory changes

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REGULATORY CHANGES

• Bankruptcies, universal service, regulatory
  parity, regulatory relief, and competition with
  government entities
• FCC and Congress

Skip Haynes, Chairman, USTA
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REGULATORY CHANGES

• Participation in trade
• associations
• In DC, including OPASTCO
• Regionally
• Smaller groups of LECs
• Individually
• Boards of directors
• USAC openings

John McHugh, OPASTCO
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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can
• Telephone network
• Disaster prevention
• Disaster recovery
• Regulatory changes
• Personal disaster prevention and recovery

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KEEPING GOOD PEOPLE

• Remove bad people
• Develop a culture that allows people to grow

Jerome Carr, formerly Frontier Communications
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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can
• Telephone network
• Disaster prevention
• Disaster recovery
• Regulatory changes
• Personal disaster prevention and recovery
• Working with other people to make change happen

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SERENITY PRAYER

• Accept the things I cannot change
• Change the things I can