David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself!

So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut), to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution, to blog at http://isen.com/blog and to organize tech policy conferences such as F2C: Freedom to Connect, now in its sixth year.