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AT&T-Verizon-Centurylink- ALEC

CLICK HERE: STOP AT&T'S FCC PETITION

• Who is ALEC?, Common Cause
• The United States of ALEC, Bill Moyers
• Outing ALEC, Center for Media and Democracy

AT&T's Petition Comments

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• See Who Else Filed Comments.

Articles: Huffington Post:

• AT&T's FCC Petition Should Be Denied: AT&T Should be Investigated
• AT&T U-verse Is a Copper-Based PSTN Service: Lawmakers and the Media Were Duped.
• What Are the Public Switched Telephone Networks, 'PSTN' and Why You Should Care?
• AT&T's $14 Billion Dollar 'Bribe' to Get Rid of Telecom Regulations Is a Multi-Layered Hoax

• Petition: (Filed August 2012.)

• Stop All Proceedings to Close down the PSTN: Investigate Conflicts of Internet of the Technical Advisory Council and the Presentation of Manipulated Data.

• Report:

• Verizon's State-Based Financial Issues & Tax Losses: The Destruction of America's Telecommunications Utilities, the Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN)."

• Backgrounder

• The Immediate Threat:AT&T-Verizon-CenturyLink-ALEC: The Dismantling of the Public Telecom Utilities and the Closing Down ofTelecommunications Regulation in America.

How the Game is Played:

Harvard Nieman Foundation for Journalism Watchog.

• Wisconsin: A case study in how corporations get the legislation they want
  January 31, 2008
  Telecom and broadband expert and activist Bruce Kushnick describes how model corporate bills get introduced and enacted in Wisconsin, to the detriment of the common good. (Second of two articles.)
• How much of your state’s legislation is being drafted by industry?,
• November 30, 2007
  The American Legislative Council, or ALEC, lets corporations cultivate legislators and win support for industry-written bills while not technically breaking lobbying rules – and paying no taxes. (First of two articles)
• Corporate-funded research designed to influence public policy,
• October 01, 2007
  Reports by well-known think tanks and individuals funded by telecoms are helping quash competition, increase phone rates and set up a corporate-oriented Internet system. Is there any reason to trust these reports? Or to trust experts who testify before regulators without revealing the sources of their funding?
• Press gives a free pass to citizens groups allied with telecoms,
• May 07, 2007
  At a New Jersey utilities board hearing on cable franchises, three guys from Verizon – the elephant in the room – go unnoticed by the regulators, and by the press.
• Verizon, AT&T and the manipulation of public opinion,
• April 04, 2007
  Needed: Blacks, Hispanics, disabled, deaf, low-income and the elderly to support the telecoms’ positions on anti-consumer FCC rulings and legislation.