“Cell Phone Text Messaging Rate Increases and the State of Competition in the Wireless Market”

June 9, 2009

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will hold a hearing entitled "Cell Phone Text Messaging Rate Increases and the State of Competition in the Wireless Market" on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.


Chairman Kohl will preside.

By order of the Chairman

Hearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

on

"Cell Phone Text Messaging Rate Increases and the State of Competition in the Wireless Market?"

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
2:30 p.m.

**Video Courtesy of C-SPAN**

Randal S. Milch
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Verizon Communications, Inc.
New York, NY

Wayne W. Watts
Sr. Executive Vice President
& General Counsel
AT&T Management Services, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

Joel Kelsey
Policy Analyst
Consumers Union®
New York, NY

Laurie Itkin
Director of Government Affairs
Cricket Communications, Inc.
San Diego, CA

Srinivasan Keshav
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada