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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Adapted from an ARS Technica article by Jon Brodkin, 7/31/18 | Original article here AT&T and Verizon have generally built fiber only where they face competition. You already knew that home broadband competition is sorely lacking through much of the US. Much of this misery was created because our State Public Telecom Utilities (controlled by …
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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 Dr. Cindy L. Russell | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300161Environmental Research, Volume 165, August 2018, Pages 484-495 I am highlighting the excellent paper, above, and am encouraging everyone to read it. I have written the following building on the ideas introduced in the paper’s abstract and conclusions. I added a section on Biologically-Based Electromagnetic Fields and Radio-frequency Electromagnetic …
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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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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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