March 19, 2018 By Bruce Kushnick, New Networks Institute, Executive Director; Original article here Verizon’s Proposed Settlement in New York Covers Up One of the Largest, Nationwide, Accounting Scandals in American History. The following financial information is taken directly from Verizon New York’s 2016 Annual Report, published in June 2017. A. Key Findings We address …
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by Bruce Kushnick 01/11/2018 01:53 pm ET; original article here. Verizon 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 poverty …
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The following is by Bruce Kushnick; 12/13/2017 04:54 am ET; Original article here. On December 14th, 2017, the FCC will vote to shut down Net Neutrality. The decision has already been made; the vote will just be a formality. The Republican ‘FCC Gang of 3’ (Pai/O’Rielly/Carr) is now a voting block, which AT&T, Verizon, ALEC …
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Paul Thurrott: “I think of [Net Neutrality] as more of a fairness thing . . . What has happened . . . What have these companies done when they were unfettered by regulation? What have they done? There are so many stories. . . It’s also anti-innovation because what this does is it gives unfair …
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Who knew? The FCC now has its own podcast. They have maintained a blog for sometime. 2021 FCC Open Commission Meetings January 13, 2021 FCC Open Commission Meeting February 17, 2021 FCC Open Commission Meeting March 17, 2021 FCC Open Commission Meeting April 22, 2021 FCC Open Commission Meeting May 20, 2021 FCC Open Commission …
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by Bruce Kushnick, 11/09/2017 04:55 am ET; Link to original Huffington Post article This analysis is being presented in two parts. Part II lays out the rest of the insidious, very under-the-radar plan. The FCC has created a series of 15 to 20+ separate, but interconnected proposed rules, regulations and actions to directly help AT&T …
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The tanks are rolling forward, over all of us . . . and nobody in the Federal, State and Local governments care. It’s business as usual: if we spin the same fables and self-serving narratives over and over, the people will just believe/accept them. Ajit Pai, acting FCC Chairman, on-camera, at an FCC open meeting …
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by Bruce Kushnick 09/20/2017 03:03 pm ET Link to the original article, as it appears at the Huffington Post FTTBS: Fiber-To-The-Bait-&-Switch In April 2016, Verizon told Boston it was going to be spending $300 million to deploy FiOS, their wireline Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) service, to the entire city over the next six years. Unfortunately, what Verizon’s …
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Read the original 9/10/17 Huffington Post Article or the one reproduced, below. Dear CA Legislators, You are being played by ALEC, AT&T, Verizon, CTIA Et Al. by Bruce Kushnick, 09/10/2017 04:01 pm ET The California legislature is considering an industry-sponsored bill that claims it will bring a fabulous wireless tech future, 5G, that would replace …
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Legacy Landlines are Far Superior to VoIP phone lines AT&T’s May/June written notice to AT&T landline customers about AT&T’s plan to switch customers from Title-II-regulated Legacy Copper Phone-Switched Landline Phone Services to unregulated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Phone Services is misleading. No one has to switch, as clarified here, so don’t switch, if you …
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