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Appendix 2: Arizona Organizational Resources

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Arizona Competitive Telecommunications Coalition (ACTC) - http://www.aztelecom.org/
John Badal, Executive Director, 1721 W. Weldon, Phoenix, AZ 85015, (602) 277-1490, Fax: (602) 277-8965. ACTC is an association of competitive providers of telecommunications services in Arizona who seeks to facilitate and encourage pro-competitive telecommunications policies for the benefit of its members and Arizona businesses and consumers.

Arizona Cable Television Association (ACTA) - http://www.azcta.org/
Susan Bitter Smith, Executive Director, 3610 N 44th St., Suite 240, Phoenix, AZ, 85018, (602) 955-4122, Fax: (602) 955-4505, E-mail: acta@netzone.com. ACTA represents Arizona cable television companies providing publications and research as well as working with state and federal lawmakers, the Arizona Corporation Commission and municipal government to implement positive programs and resolve issues for the cable television industry.
Communications Workers of America (CWA) - http://www.cwa-union.org/
9224 N 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85020, (602) 331-7019, Fax: (602) 861-4171. The CWA is a trade union that represents workers in several different fields. With the bulk of their members in the traditional telephone companies, they also represent workers in the printing industry, Maricopa Community College District, and Labor's Community Service Agency. There are 7 CWA Locals in Arizona, with the largest being Phoenix Local 7019 (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cwa7019/) with 5,600 unionized workers. Arizona is part of District 7 (AK, AZ, CO, ID, IA, MN, MT, NB, NM, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY), 8085 E. Prentice Ave., Englewood, CO 80111, (303) 770-2822, Fax: (303) 793-7927.

Arizona Broadcasters Association (ABA) -
3101 N Central Ave., Suite 550, Phoenix AZ, 85012-2639, (602) 274-1418, Fax: (602) 631-9853. The ABA is the official trade association serving all radio and television stations in Arizona with government relations support as well as acting as a clearing house of information for all FCC and National Association of Broadcasters departments.

Arizona Newspapers Association (ANA) - http://www.ananews.com/
1101 N Central Ave., Suite 670, Phoenix AZ 85004-1947, (602) 261-7655, Fax: (602) 261-7525. The ANA is a non-profit trade association representing daily, weekly and (bi-) monthly Arizona newspapers and publications. ANA maintains a weekly legislative alert on-line focused on Freedom of Information issues.
The Center for Advanced Telesysmatics (CAT) - http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~hpdc/cat/
Salim Hariri, Director, University of Arizona (U of A), 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, Arizona 85721, (520) 621-4378, Fax: (520) 621-8076. CAT is part of the High Performance Distributed Computing Laboratory (http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~hpdc/). CAT's goal is to help establish Next-Generation Network Centric Systems by developing innovative partnerships with existing industry and providing incubation facilities for start -up companies to help bring the information technologies resulting from this center to the marketplace.



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