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In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to bob quinn, Senior Executive Vice President for external and legislative affairs for the at t corporation. Mr. Quinn, thats a lot of title. What does it entail . [laughter] guest well, at at t that would entail i run the regulatory shop for both the state and federal operations. You know, we do business in 50 states, so we have interactionings with state interactions with state c...

Federal operations and we do business in 50 states, so we have interactions with commissions across the country. We have those interactions that are pretty significant. I also run a Public Policy organization, and i run both at the state and federal efforts. We also have International Interest as you are probably yoy aware when we acquired directv, we acquired an ongoing satellite business. It is by a large wireless provider in mexico and we have a satellite business in mexico. We have an enterprise basis and for the most part it is corporate customers and they do business across the world so ...

In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host it is november 4, 2013. Tom wheeler [captions copy right National Cable satellite corp. 2017] the term comes to an end on january 20. Wheeler, during your tenure what did you get right . I hope that what we did was, we said that our job is to be the publics representative. In a rapidly changing technological environment, which is affecting the way in which everybody deals with the networks that connect us. And at the heart of that was consumers and competition should come first....

Publics representative. In a rapidly changing technological environment. Which is affecting the way in which everybody deals with the networks that connect us. And at the heart of that was consumers and competition should come first. How did that manifest . I think you can look at a list of things. You know, we of course had the open internet order. Which says that the internet should be fast, fair and open for everyone. We established privacy rules for networks as far as their relationship, for consumers and relationship with the networks. It says it is the consumers information. It is not th...

So the odds are that as we speak, he somewhere in the air, going to australia or china for israel or france. He is constantly on the road. We are out of time. This is a memoir called never look an american in the eye. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this q a. Org. Visit us at also available as podcasts. We are live now at the Brookings Institution here in was...