Bruce Kushnick Primer

IRREGULATORS v. FCC Judges: Rogers, Katsas, Williams Arguing: W. Scott McCollough, Matthew J. Dunne (FCC) Jan 17, 2020 Audio recording of W. Scott McCollough’s argument in IRREGULATORS v. FCC. It sounds like the IRREGULATORS might be able go after the states upon a decision in this case Ruling (est. to be July/Aug 2020), but that …

Explosive New Unredacted Report by CA Public Utilities Commission about AT&T California

By Bruce Kushnick, Feb 22, 2021 | Original Medium article here. Report Corroborates IRREGULATORS Call to Investigate Billions of Cross Subsidies. Over the last few weeks, a senior citizen named Aaron Epstein defied the odds. He was so frustrated with his old copper based DSL service and not having a high-speed fiber connection from AT&T …

AT&T, Verizon & CenturyLink are State Public Telecom Utilities

By Bruce Kushnick, Dec 23, 2020 | Original Medium article here. Forget Big Tech: Break Up Big Telecom, then Big Cable. While the “FTC” (“Federal Trade Commission”) and Attorney General offices around the US are actively going after Facebook, and there are other cases against Amazon or Google, claiming they are “Big Tech” and harming …

Happy Holidays for NYC — ½ million lines of Fiber Optic, Instead of the Inferior Wireless 4G/5G Substitute

By Bruce Kushnick, Managing Director, IRREGULATORS, Nov 26, 2020 Was it the IRREGULATORS Letters to Mayor deBlasio? The Verizon franchise agreement required 100% of the City upgraded to fiber optics for FIOS by 2014. Verizon did not deliver the goods. In September, 2020 — 3.5 years after NYC sued Verizon over renegging on its franchise …

IRREGULATORS v. FCC Ruling Frees States from FCC Separations Rule

Adapted from an article by Bruce Kushnick, Mar 16, 2020 | Original medium article is here States Can Now Decide Their Own Separations Accounting Principles This is similar in many ways to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld the FCC repeal of Net Neutrality regulations from the FCC’s control. Net Neutrality is …

FCC Response to IRREGULATORS Legal Challenge: Let Them Eat Pie

Oct 3, 2019 NEWS: IRREGULATORS Podcasts: listen here and read about it here. Oct 10, 2019 NEWS: 2019-1010-IRREGULATORS-v-FCC-Reply-Brief By Bruce Kushnick, Sept 26, 2019 | Original Medium article here. On September 12th, 2019, the FCC responded to the IRREGULATORS v FCC law suit filed with the Federal DC Court of Appeals. This case exposes one …

Follow the Money to Solve the Digital Divide

By Bruce Kushnick, Sept. 16, 2019 | Original Medium article here. Let’s fix the Digital Divide First, the only way to fix the Digital Divide is to deal with the fact that America has paid multiple times for fiber optic deployments, upgrades of the state-based telecommunications utilities that are mainly controlled by AT&T, Verizon and …