Responding to the growing need in the telecom industry for improved guidance on regulatory and policy issues, PBI Media today launches Telecom Policy Report. This weekly newsletter is tailored to telecom industry executives, lawyers, government officials and lobbyists and is positioned to be the industry’s most important resource for making sense of telecom developments on Capitol Hill and at the regulatory agencies.

Telecom Policy Report joins PBI Media’s expanding Telecom Group, which includes Broadband Business Report, Fiber Optics News, Wireless Data News, Satellite News, Interspace, Inside Digital TV, Tarifica and TelecomTactics. Its web site, Telecomweb.com, is one of the industry’s most visited business sites.

“During the coming months, policymakers are going to be moving at warp speed on an agenda of complex telecom issues — including wireline competition, broadband deployment, universal service and spectrum allocation, just to name a few,” says Jim Rogers, executive editor of Telecom Policy Report. “What’s needed now is a useful information filter, a tool to help folks cut through the reams of techno-babble and get right to the heart of the most important issues.”

Among the articles in the in the April 7^th premier issue of Telecom Policy Report are:

• An exclusive look at how special access rulemaking may affect dedicated lines
• On the 8^th Floor – Behind the scenes at the FCC, with unique coverage of wireless carriers’ lobbying efforts
• Behind Closed Doors – An in-depth look at the controversy surrounding line-sharing
• Scorecard – Telecom Policy Report‘s proprietary ranking of the top telecom lobbyists
• The Money Trail – Tracking political spending by two major unions and telecom utilities

Headquartered near Washington, DC, PBI Media, LLC (PBI) is a full-service global information and marketing solutions provider of competitive business-to-business information. PBI’s Telecom Group publishes cutting-edge news and analysis, presents the annual Telecom Marketing Awards and hosts various webinars and networking events.

For subscription information about Telecom Policy Report, visit the TelecomWeb catalog, http://www.telecomweb.com/cgi/catalog/info?TPR , contact [email protected] or call 888-707-5808.