ADVISORY/Experts Available to Comment on Supreme Court's Telecom Cases.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001 TOPIC: The Supreme Court opens its new session today by hearing a slate of telecommunications cases which some experts say may have broad-reaching implications on how much consumers pay for local telephone and high- speed Internet services and how many competitors will provide them. Lawyers in a story by the New York Times say that the 10 lawsuits, which have been "broadly consolidated" into three cases highlight the shortcomings of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was supposed to deregulate the industry and introduce competition to telephone markets. .According to the Times story, one set of cases involves government accounting methods; the second addresses the disparate treatment between telephone and cable companies, and the third addresses constitutional question of whether federal courts have authority to review the decisions of state utility regulators. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Jeff Chaskin is President of Ursus Telecom Corp, a global facilities-based telecommunications company providing international services including IP Telephony - voice over Internet protocol -(VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a ), long distance, direct-dial, value added and Internet-based services to more than 100,000 customers worldwide. PR: Brandy Hunt/ Continental Capital brandy@insidewallstreet.com Mark Evans is a partner with Great Hill Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm, and focuses on investment opportunities primarily in the telecommunications industries, including broadband services, wired and wireless communications and commercial service providers. Mr. Evans has a clear understanding of what companies in New York are facing as they begin rebuilding their telecommunications infrastructure, and can provide a big-picture outlook on the current state of the industry. Mr. Evans earned a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in Finance and Economics from Boston College and a master of business administration from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . PR: Susan Keliher 617/969-9192 ; skeliher@corporateink.com Dr. Barbara Cherry is associate director of the James H. & Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law is a research facility at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Part of the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at the College of Communication Arts and and an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . Dr. Cherry worked for five years as Director of Public Policy Studies at Ameritech. Prior to Ameritech she worked at AT&T for ten years, where, during most of that period, she held the position of Regional Attorney in State Government Affairs. Dr. Cherry has extensive experience in the negotiation, research, and analysis of public policy issues in the telecommunications industry, with particular emphasis on universal service and regulatory policy. She has presented papers on universal service policy at numerous U.S. and international conferences. Her first book, coedited with Steven Wildman and Al Hammond, will be published in early 1999. Dr. Cherry holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , a M.A. in Economics and Law from Harvard University, and a B.S. in Economics from University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . 517/432-8003 Prof. David Farber is a computer scientist at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . He is an expert in Telecommunications Policy and networking. He recently served as the Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. . Dr. Farber was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 to serve on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology. In addition, he is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. and serves on the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. of the Electronic Frontier Foundation See EFF. (body) Electronic Frontier Foundation - (EFF) A group established to address social and legal issues arising from the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means of communication and information distribution. . He was a 10 year alumnus of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the U.S. National Research Council and is a Fellow of the Japan Glocom Institute and of the Cyberlaw Institute. 610/304-9127 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. 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