NEWS                                                     October 31, 1995

       STATEMENT OF FCC CHAIRMAN REED HUNDT IN RESPONSE TO AT&T'S
     PLEDGE OF $150 MILLION TO HELP PUT THE NATION'S SCHOOLS ON THE
                        INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY 

     Today, AT&T has offered to take all our children a long way down the information
highway.  We at the FCC hope that AT&T's gift of free internet access and voice-mail to all
the children of America will catalyze a nationwide  public/private partnership to network all
classrooms as the President and Vice-President have challenged.  Today only 3% of
America's classrooms can access the services being offered by AT&T.  AT&T will connect
the classrooms of 100 schools but there are over a million classrooms left unconnected.  The
Snowe-Rockefeller-Exon-Kerrey provisions of the telecommunications bill will allow us to
make sure that the rest of America's children will be able to avail themselves of AT&T's
generosity.
   
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