Broadband Users Still Not Getting The Speeds They Pay For

FCC Tries to Bury Report Showing The Clear Evidence of This Fraud By Karl Bode Dec 7, 2018 | Original Techdirt article here. From the hiding-it-won't-make-it-go-away department . . . So every year like clockwork since 2011 the FCC has released a report naming and shaming ISPs that fail to deliver advertised broadband speeds. The …

Big Wireless Erecting Small Cells Avoid Rural Areas

FCC Says Small Cells Will Close the Digital Divide. Most say they won’t. Adapted from an article by Allan Holmes, Nov 17, 2018 | Original The Center for Public Integrity article is here. When he was appointed chairman of the agency that oversees the nation’s powerful telecommunications companies last year, Ajit Pai made clear that …

Tenth Circuit Wins Lawsuit Lottery Over FCC WT-Docket 17-79

By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco 7 Nov 2018; Original The Register article here Six lawsuits against FCC's 5G idiocy – that $2 billion windfall for telcos – is bundled into one appeals court suit Six lawsuits filed against controversial new 5G rules drawn up by America's communications watchdog have been bundled into one, and …

Cities Sue FCC to Stop $2 Billion Gift to Wireless Carriers

After FCC vote, cities try to restore local control over 5G fees and equipment. By Jon Brodkin, Oct 3, 2018 | Original ARS Technica article here. Cities are already suing the Federal Communications Commission over its decision to preempt local rules on deployment of 5G wireless equipment. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete …

FCC WT-Dockets 17-79 and 17-84

September 5, 2018 FCC FACT SHEET Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment; Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order WT Docket No. 17-79; WC Docket No. 17-84 Background: To meet rapidly increasing demand for wireless services and prepare our national infrastructure …

ADA Rights Ignored in FCC WT Docket 17-79

From https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?q=filers.name:(Merry%20Callahan)&sort=date_disseminated,DESC June 17, 2017 Hello FCC, Please include my comment in opposition to proceedings on the expediting and expansion of 5G networking onto public right of way and poles, and the stand-down of copper-lines in both urban and rural areas. I request that a 30-day extension to comments be granted on these proceedings, WT …

Verizon VP Leecia Eve Should Not be the Next Attorney General of New York

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 …

Senator John McCain Dies of Glioblastoma

Sen. John McCain died exactly nine years after his friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — and of exactly the same thing: Glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer often caused by pulsed, data-modulated, Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Microwave Radiation (RF-EMR) from Cellular telephones and infrastructure: Close Proximity Microwave Radiation Antenna – Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (CPMRA-WTFs). New York Post: McCain and …