By Bruce Kushnick. Sept 25, 2018; Original article here Legend WT Docket 15-180: Revising the Historic Preservation Review Process for Wireless Facility Deployments WT Docket 17-79: Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment WC Docket 17-84: Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment WTB = Wireline Telecommunications Bureau WCB = …
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By Bruce Kushnick, Sept 23, 2018; Original article here. Cross Subsidies from Your State’s Wired, State-Based Telecom Utility to Separate Private Wireless Companies Have Been Floating this Wireless Expansion For a Long Time — this must end, On September, 26, 2018, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr will present a plan for deploying 5G, which claims that …
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By Bruce Kushnick New Networks Institute Sept 3, 2018 | Original Medium article here. Leecia Eve is currently the Verizon Vice President of State Government Affairs for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, since 2013. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Secretary of Economic Development for NY and Governor Cuomo’s Chief Economic Development …
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by Bruce Kushnick 01/11/2018 01:53 pm ET; original article here. Verizon Communications Has Invested in 470+ Companies/Entities, Worldwide When you pay your Telecommunications bills, do you ever wonder where all the money goes? Verizon Communications, Inc. had a 5% or more interest in these 470+ companies/entities at the end of 2016. While the company pleads …
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By Bruce Kushnick, July 19,2018; Original article here. Fiber Optics to Underserved Areas; Repairs of the State Utility Networks New Networks Institute (NNI) & the IRREGULATORS just helped to get 32,000 fiber optic lines installed by Verizon-New York in underserved areas as well as have the state utility be required to do long needed repairs …
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By Bruce Kushnick | June 17, 2018 | Original article here. I was asked to summarize the current communications situation in light of the Net Neutrality decision (being refreshed until the next challenge), and the “ridiculously bad” AT&T-Time Warner merger going through (decision here) — and what we should do about it. This current FCC has …
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What’s In Store for You Online? Higher Prices, Fewer Voices. By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief | June 14, 2018 | Original article here. Two major developments this week promise to change the way you access and use the internet, both for the worse. First, AT&T won approval Tuesday from a federal judge to purchase …
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By Bruce Kushnick; New Networks Institute | June 10, 2018 | Original Medium article here. The Mergers that Created Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink Were Failures AT&T= SBC, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, SNET, Ameritech, BellSouth and the original AT&T. Verizon = Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE, Alltel, and MCI CenturyLink = US West turned into Qwest For …
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NNI and the IRREGULATORS Call for a Continuation of the Investigation April 27, 2018 by Bruce Kushnick; Original article here. What’s At Stake Billions in Cross-Subsidies: from the regulated State Wireline Telecom Utility to unregulated private Wireless companies Rampant customer overcharging Failure to upgrade cities’ Wireline infrastructure from copper to fiber optics Decades of questionable …
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Adapted from a 3/8/18 article by Bruce Kushnick, New Networks Institute The 4G/5G Close Proximity Microwave Radiation Antennas (‘CPMRA’) scheme is the latest in a long list of scandals by AT&T and Verizon to use the promise of a new technology to Eliminate regulations Kill off competition Raise rates This 4G/5G CPMRA scheme relies on …
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