Chairman’s Welcome
The California Communications Association is justly proud of its rich heritage in the communications industry. And we’re excited to be in the forefront of technological change as CalCom members and the communities they serve advance into the 21st Century.
As Chairman and CEO of CalCom, I welcome you to the CalCom website. Take a moment to learn about CalCom and its members, the communities they serve and the challenges they face. I hope, too, you’ll return for future visits to see the many new and sweeping changes we are undertaking to enhance your user experience and better-enable CalCom to fulfill its mission:
- To serve as an industry forum
- To provide education and technical resources and support
- To advocate for sound public policy
CalCom Chairman Drake Announces Assemblymember Joan Buchanan as 2011 Legislator-of-the-Year
On behalf of the CalCom Board of Directors, its Member Companies, and the many Associate Members from the supplier community, I am most-pleased to recognize Assemblymember Joan Buchanan as the 2011 CalCom Legislator of the Year.
President’s Message
If you’re reading this, you likely already know the Federal Communications
Commission voted 4-0 on Thursday to accept Chairman Julian Genachowski’s
proposal to overhaul a historically-successful program that has been devoted to
building telephone connections in places where it’s expensive to supply
service. The new Connect America Fund
for broadband is part of Genachowski’s effort to spur economic growth by
increasing the availability of high-speed Internet service. In the same vote the FCC lowered the rates
that companies charge to connect calls.
Before the vote, Genachowski said, “We are taking a system designed for the
Alexander Graham Bell era of rotary telephones and modernizing it for the era
of Steve Jobs and the Internet future he imagined.” In addition, the proposed reforms “will
unleash billions of dollars of private section infrastructure spending in rural
areas, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.”
