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 Navigators has an extensive telecommunications and technology industry practice, having serviced corporate and trade association clients on both government relations and communications strategy. Navigators brings strong policy expertise and a network of contacts in the Bush Administration, the Federal Communications Commission and on the key telecommunications and technology committees on Capitol Hill.
Navigators’ Principal Cesar Conda leads the firm’s telecommunications and technology practice. Mr. Conda was a top aide for senators who sat on the Commerce Committee, and a member of the Bush Administration’s telecommunications and technology policy team. He is currently a member of the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s Advisory Committee of the Digital Age Communications Act.
Navigators’ Principal Mike Murphy and Principal Sarah Bascom also have extensive backgrounds in the field of telecommunications in regards to strategic communications. Mr. Murphy has served as a senior political advisor to both MCI and SBC. In 2004, he helped guide the industry to a strong victory in one of the largest telecommunications policy battles in California history. Ms. Bascom has served as a communications and media consultant for the BellSouth/AT&T legislative team in Florida for many years, assisting with the passage of priorities, such as rate-rebalancing and the Cable Competition Act.
Navigators has worked for many of the leading telecommunications and technology companies and trade associations, including Advanced Micro Devices, AT&T, Bellsouth Corporation, MCI, SBC Corporation, MyWireless.org, TracFone Wireless, Inc., Oracle USA, Inc., QUALCOMM Incorporated, Californians Against the Phone Tax and Unisys Corporation, among others.
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Navigators
was hired by AT&T Florida to run a strategic communications
campaign to breakthrough the cable monopoly and promote cable
competition for an open, consumer-driven market in the State of
Florida. This design piece was a tool used to educate the Governor,
Legislators, key media, and the general public. Ultimately, the
Consumer Choice Act was signed into law.
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