Last month, institutional investors in ATT and Verizon asked the two companies begin to issue the kinds of transparency reports popularized by internet businesses like Twitter and Google. Today, ATT is issuing its response to the request, reports the New York Times, and unsurprisingly, it’s not too excited about the idea. To ATT, its response to law enforcement requests represent ordinary business operations, outside the purview of ordinary shareholders, so it’s excluding the request from the ballot for next spring’s annual shareholder meeting. Firms like Google are actively pushing the DOJ
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